This unit aims to provide students with the basic concepts involved in the development of well structured software using a programming language. It concentrates on the development of problem solving skills applicable to all stages of the development process. Students gain experience with the translation of a problem specification into a program design, and the implementation of that design into a programming language. The subject introduces software engineering topics such as maintainability, readability, testing, documentation, modularisation, and reasoning about correctness of programs. Students are expected to read and understand existing code as well as develop new code.
2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs laboratories/wk
Students will be expected to spend a total of 12 hours per week during semester on this unit as follows:
CSE9000
Judy Sheard
Contact hours: To be advised.
Michael Smith
Contact hours: To be advised.
At the completion of this unit students will:
Examination (3 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%
| Assessment Task | Value | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| Exercise on Plagiarism, Cheating and Collusion | 0% (compulsory hurdle) | 15 August 2011 |
| Assignment 1, Assignment 2 (Stage 1) & Assignment 2 (Stage 2) | 35% total (10%, 5% & 20%) | Assignment 1 - 5 September 2011; Assignment 2 (Stage 1) - 3 October 2011 and (Stage 2) 17 October 2011. |
| ViLLE exercises | 5% | 21 October 2011 |
| Examination 1 | 60% | To be advised |
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Required Text
Objects First with Java (4th Edition), Barnes and Kolling (Prentice Hall), 2009
In this unit we will use Java and the BlueJ development environment.
This software is available on CD with the text book.
Also:
The Java software is available to download from Sun website at: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/
BlueJ is available to download from the BlueJ site at: http://www.bluej.org/
You will be given instructions on how to use this in your first tutorial.
You are expected to work in the BlueJ development environment.
Tutors will only assess the assignments under this environment.
| Week | Activities | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | No formal assessment or activities are undertaken in week 0 | |
| 1 | Introduction to FIT9017 and expectations; introduction to programming, basic OO concepts, objects, classes, attributes, behaviour, state and identity. | Note: Tutorials commence in Week 1 |
| 2 | Class definition, fields, constructors, methods, parameter passing, variables, expressions, statements, assignment, primitive data types, arithmetic operators, strings, basic output. | |
| 3 | Selection (if and switch statements), conditions, relational & logical operators, shorthand operators, ++ operator, precedence, scope and lifetime, basic input. | |
| 4 | Object creation and interaction, abstraction, modularisation, class & object diagrams, object creation, primitive vs. object types, method calling, message passing, method signatures, method overloading. | Exercise on Plagiarism, Cheating and Collusion, due 15 August 2011 |
| 5 | Class libraries, importing classes, collections, ArrayLists, arrays, iteration, pre and post test loops. | |
| 6 | Testing, unit testing, testing heuristics, regression testing, debugging. | |
| 7 | Class documentation, Javadoc, identity vs. equality, more on strings, sets and maps, conditional operator. | Assignment 1 due 5 September 2011 |
| 8 | Information hiding, encapsulation, access modifiers, scoping, class variables, class methods, constants. | |
| 9 | Program design, design methods, responsibility-driven design, design documentation, testing a program, specifying a test strategy. | |
| 10 | Programming errors, exception handling, file I/O. | Assignment 2 (Stage 1) due 3 October 2011 |
| 11 | Code quality, coupling, cohesion, refactoring, using the Java SDK | |
| 12 | Inheritance, superclasses, subclasses, subtypes, substitution, polymorphic variables, protected access, casting, wrapper classes, collection hierarchy. | Assignment 2 (Stage 2) due 17 October 2011; ViLLE exercises due 21 October 2011 |
| SWOT VAC | No formal assessment is undertaken SWOT VAC | |
| Examination period | LINK to Assessment Policy: http://policy.monash.edu.au/policy-bank/ academic/education/assessment/ assessment-in-coursework-policy.html |
*Unit Schedule details will be maintained and communicated to you via your MUSO (Blackboard or Moodle) learning system.
To pass a unit which includes an examination as part of the assessment a student must obtain:
If a student does not achieve 40% or more in the unit examination or the unit non-examination total assessment, and the total mark for the unit is greater than 50% then a mark of no greater than 49-N will be recorded for the unit
Completion of the task with satisfactory answers.
These are individual assignments and must be entirely your own work.
Assessment of these assignments is by interview. You will be asked to demonstrate your system during an interview and can also expect to be asked to explain your system, your code, your design, discuss design decisions and alternatives and modify your code / system as required. Marks will not be awarded for any section of code or functionality that a student cannot explain or modify satisfactorily. (The marker may delete excessive comments in code before a student is asked to explain that code).
Interview times will be arranged in the tutorial labs immediately preceding the submission deadline. It is your responsibility to attend the lab and obtain an interview time. Students who do not attend an interview will receive zero marks for the assignment.
Marks awarded for correct completion of exercises.
It is a University requirement (http://www.policy.monash.edu/policy-bank/academic/education/conduct/plagiarism-procedures.html) for students to submit an assignment coversheet for each assessment item. Faculty Assignment coversheets can be found at http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/resources/student/forms/. Please check with your Lecturer on the submission method for your assignment coversheet (e.g. attach a file to the online assignment submission, hand-in a hard copy, or use an online quiz).
Submission must be made by the due date otherwise penalties will be enforced.
You must negotiate any extensions formally with your campus unit leader via the in-semester special consideration process: http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/resources/student/equity/special-consideration.html.
There will be no resubmission of assignments.
Students must reference material used from other sources.
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Reading List
The following may provide useful extra reading for this unit. Copies of these are available in the Caulfield Library (on reserve, one day loan or in the normal circulation).
Java Foundations, Lewis, De Pasquale & Chase, (Pearson Education), 2008
Big Java (4th edition), Cay Horstman (John Wiley & Sons), 2010
Java Programming - from Problem Analysis to Program Design (3rd edition), D. S Malik (Thomson), 2008
Thinking in Java (4th edition), Eckell (Prentice Hall), 2006
Absolute Java (3rd edition), Savitch (Addison Wesley), 2008