FIT5151 will aim at capitalising on what students have learned in FIT9017 Foundations of programming (or equivalent). The unit covers more in-depth material to enable students to build business applications that follow good Software Engineering principles of maintainability, reusability and expandability. The emphasis will be on helping students acquire solid object-oriented programming knowledge and skills for building business applications. Popular object-oriented design patterns will be introduced whenever appropriate to illustrate effective design process in building larger systems.
Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:
(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:
(b.) Study schedule for off-campus students:
(c.) Additional requirements (all students):
FIT5131 or FIT9017 or equivalent
Dengsheng Zhang
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| Week | Activities | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | No formal assessment or activities are undertaken in week 0 | |
| 1 | Programming Concepts and Java - variables, operators, expressions, control structures, recursion, class structure, collections, primitive types, object types, exceptions, I/O, file I/O | This week's exercise is a revision of prerequisite knowledge. |
| 2 | Object oriented Concepts - classes, objects, methods, attributes, message passing, constructors, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, visibility, abstraction, packages, interacting classes, association, aggregation, composition | |
| 3 | Inheritance - subclasses, subtyping, substitution, overriding, types of inheritance, access modifiers | |
| 4 | Inheritance - abstract classes, multiple inheritance, interfaces, inner classes, enumerations | |
| 5 | Testing, testing tools (JUnit) | |
| 6 | GUI - event handling, components, layout, AWT and Swing libraries | |
| 7 | Persistence: Java database connectivity, more file I/O | Assignment 1 due Week 7 (Friday 11:55pm Australian EST) |
| 8 | Program Design - design techniques (responsibility driven design), Parnas' principles, design representation (UML) | |
| 9 | Program design - coupling and cohesion, Law of Demeter, Design by Contract, Assertions, Refactoring | |
| 10 | Design Patterns - decorator, singleton, factory, observer, etc., frameworks | |
| 11 | Software development methodologies, agile methods | |
| 12 | Bringing it all together - Revision | Assignment 2 due Week 12 (Friday 11:55pm Australian EST) |
| SWOT VAC | No formal assessment is undertaken in 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 learning system.
Examination (3 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%
| Assessment Task | Value | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment 1 | 20% | Week 7 (Friday 11:55pm Australian EST) |
| Assignment 2 | 20% | Week 12 (Friday 11.55pm Australian EST) |
| Examination 1 | 60% | To be advised |
Faculty Policy - Unit Assessment Hurdles (http://intranet.monash.edu.au/infotech/resources/staff/edgov/policies/assessment-examinations/assessment-hurdles.html)
Academic Integrity - Please see resources and tutorials at http://www.monash.edu/library/skills/resources/tutorials/academic-integrity/
This is an individual assignment and must be entirely your own work.
Assessment for the assignment will be via interview.
Submissions will be judged on their compliance with the stated functional requirements, code and design principles presented in the unit. 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).
Further details on the tasks and requirements will be made available in the assignments' specifications. Arrangements regarding interviews will also be outlined in the assignments' specifications.
This is an individual assignment and must be entirely your own work.
Submissions will be judged on their compliance with the stated functional requirements, code and design principles presented in the unit.
Assessment of this assignment will be by interview.
The following may provide useful extra reading for this unit. Copies of these are available in the Library (on reserve, one day loan or in the normal circulation).
Java Foundations, Lewis, De Pasquale & Chase, (Pearson Education), 2011
Big Java (4th Edition), Cay Horstman (John Wiley & Sons), 2010
Java Programming - from Problem Analysis to Program Design (5th Edition), D. S Malik (Thomson), 2012
Thinking in Java (4th Edition), Eckell (Prentice Hall), 2006
Absolute Java (5th Edition), Savitch (Addison Wesley), 2013
Monash Library Unit Reading List (if applicable to the unit)
http://readinglists.lib.monash.edu/index.html
Faculty of Information Technology Style Guide
Examination/other end-of-semester assessment feedback may take the form of feedback classes, provision of sample answers or other group feedback after official results have been published. Please check with your lecturer on the feedback provided and take advantage of this prior to requesting individual consultations with staff. If your unit has an examination, you may request to view your examination script booklet, see http://intranet.monash.edu.au/infotech/resources/students/procedures/request-to-view-exam-scripts.html
Types of feedback you can expect to receive in this unit are:
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.monash.edu.au/exams/special-consideration.html
It is a University requirement (http://www.policy.monash.edu/policy-bank/academic/education/conduct/student-academic-integrity-managing-plagiarism-collusion-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). Please note that it is your responsibility to retain copies of your assessments.
If Electronic Submission has been approved for your unit, please submit your work via the learning system for this unit, which you can access via links in the my.monash portal.
Please check with your lecturer before purchasing any Required Resources. Limited copies of prescribed texts are available for you to borrow in the library, and prescribed software is available in student labs.
Prescribed Software
You must have the Java SE 6 (or later) Software Development Kit (called the JDK) installed on your computer. This software can be downloaded for free from the internet by going to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html and clicking on the 'download' button in the JDK column.
Limited copies of prescribed texts are available for you to borrow in the library.
Barnes and Kolling. (2012). Objects First with Java: A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ. (5th Edition) Prentice Hall (ISBN: 9780132492669 ).
Useful Software
Whilst the JDK provides the compiler and runtime interpreter for the Java language, you will most likely want to make use of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). You may use any IDE that you are comfortable with. Examples of IDE are BlueJ, Eclipse, JCreator and NetBeans.
Stuart Reges and Marty Stepp. (2011). Building Java Programs: A Back to Basics Approach. (2nd Edition) Addison Wesley (ISBN: 0-136-09181-4).
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