Overview
This unit is designed for students who have had little or no programming experience. The unit aims to teach students principles, design and development of object-oriented programs. It covers topics such as modern IDEs, pseudocode, variables, constants, data types, operators, expressions, statements, classes, objects, inheritance, loops, methods, passing parameters and arrays. Students will learn how to design, implement and test programs using a modern IDE.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Have your say
Students especially distance students would like to see more practical tutorial videos
Create more practical tutorial videos.
Feedback from Have your say
Difficulty for distance students learning programming for the first time and generally need personal help
Encourage distance students to form study groups and make workshops available in regional areas. An online discussion time with the unit coordinator could also be very beneficial to distance students.
Feedback from Have your say
Students without a PC have to use Netbeans or other IDE. Students would like a tutorial on using Netbeans.
Point students to the Netbeans tutorial on the Moodle site and provide extra support in tutorials for students who have a Mac and cannot install TextPad the preferred IDE
- Understand the principles of object-oriented programming.
- Demonstrate the use of modern IDE (integrated development environment).
- Develop programs using various data types, operators, expressions, statements and loops.
- Develop programs using arrays for storing, searching and sorting data.
- Develop programs using user defined methods, parameters and arguments.
- Develop programs using graphical user interface and streams.
- Apply techniques used to produce quality programs.
- Design programs that: (a) are easy to maintain, (b) are free from logic errors, (c) are free from runtime errors, (d) validate input data, (e) respond appropriately to invalid input data, (f) are easy to debug and (g) promote the reuse of code.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 15% | ||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 65% | ||||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 15% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 65% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Java Programming
Eighth edition (2016)
Authors: Joyce Farrell
Cengage Learning
Boston Boston , Massachusetts , USA
ISBN: 978-1-285-85691-9
Binding: Paperback
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- JDK, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
- (Optional)NetBeans, http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html
- TextPad, http://www.textpad.com/download/index.html
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
m.li@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Creating Java Programs
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Chapter 1
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Using Data
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Chapter 2
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Making Decisions
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Using Methods, Classes and Objects
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Chapter 3
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More Object Concepts
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Chapter 4
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Arrays
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Chapter 8
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Advanced Array Concepts
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Chapter 9
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Introduction to Swing Components
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Chapter 14
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Characters, Strings, and the StringBuilder
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Chapter 7
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Files Input and Output
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Chapter 13
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Revision
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Unit Coordinator: Dr.Michael Li
Building 70/1.23, Rockhampton Campus
Email: m.li@cqu.edu.au (Best contact way)
Telephone: 61-7-4930 6337
1 Written Assessment
This assessment item is designed to test your understanding of topics such as variables, constants, types, operators, standard input/output, loops, if statements, classes, objects and methods. The assessment task is to write, compile and execute java programs using the above mentioned topics. Further details are available on the unit website in the Assessment 1 Specification document.
Week 6 Friday (25 Aug 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 8 Friday (8 Sept 2017)
- Efficient object-oriented program design.
- Appropriate use of variables, constants, types, operators, expressions, statements and loops.
- Appropriate use of objects, classes and methods.
- Effective use of good programming practice/techniques.
- Rigorous testing of the program for logic, runtime and other errors.
- Compilation and execution of the program using a modern IDE.
- Understand the principles of object-oriented programming.
- Demonstrate the use of modern IDE (integrated development environment).
- Develop programs using various data types, operators, expressions, statements and loops.
- Develop programs using user defined methods, parameters and arguments.
- Apply techniques used to produce quality programs.
- Design programs that: (a) are easy to maintain, (b) are free from logic errors, (c) are free from runtime errors, (d) validate input data, (e) respond appropriately to invalid input data, (f) are easy to debug and (g) promote the reuse of code.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
2 Written Assessment
This assessment item is designed to test your understanding of topics such as GUI input/output, arrays/arrayLists, methods with parameters and searching. The assessment task is to write, compile and execute a Java program using the above mentioned topics. Further details are available on the unit website in the Assessment 2 Specification document.
Week 11 Friday (29 Sept 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (20 Oct 2017)
- Efficient object-oriented program design.
- Appropriate use of variables, constants, types, operators, expressions, statements and loops.
- Appropriate use of objects, classes and methods.
- Effective use of good programming practice/techniques.
- Rigorous testing of the program for logic and runtime errors, data validation and reuse of code.
- Compilation and execution of the program using a modern IDE.
- Efficient use of arrays/arrayLists, searching algorithms.
- Appropriate use of graphical user interface.
- Understand the principles of object-oriented programming.
- Demonstrate the use of modern IDE (integrated development environment).
- Develop programs using various data types, operators, expressions, statements and loops.
- Develop programs using arrays for storing, searching and sorting data.
- Develop programs using user defined methods, parameters and arguments.
- Develop programs using graphical user interface and streams.
- Apply techniques used to produce quality programs.
- Design programs that: (a) are easy to maintain, (b) are free from logic errors, (c) are free from runtime errors, (d) validate input data, (e) respond appropriately to invalid input data, (f) are easy to debug and (g) promote the reuse of code.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
Examination
Dictionary - non-electronic, concise, direct translation only (dictionary must not contain any notes or comments).
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