Overview
In this unit, you will learn how to program using the Java programming language. It is assumed that you have little or no programming experience so you will be guided through the basics of application development using classes and objects. You will learn about the parts of a program including variables, types, and methods, and learn how to take input and produce output. A key aspect of this unit is practical, hands-on, simple application development and testing which you will do in an industry standard integrated development environment (IDE).
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Anti-requisite: COIT29222 Programming Principles
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 - 2020
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 Postgraduate 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 Student feedback.
Learning resources are in need of improvement.
Review the teaching model employed in the unit and the textbook that is being used.
Feedback from Unit Coordinator reflection on assessment performance.
More emphasis should be placed on documentation, design and testing.
Incorporate additional material on documentation, design and testing into the lecture content.
Feedback from Teaching team.
Online tutorial classes are too large for effective interaction.
Reduce class sizes for online tutorials.
- Develop professionally documented and thoroughly tested object-oriented applications using an industry standard integrated development environment (IDE)
- Apply procedural concepts (methods, iteration, selection) to the realisation of object behaviour
- Implement standard algorithms such as searching, sorting and sequential processing for arrays and lists of objects
- Employ the stream abstraction to process records contained in sequential text files
- Demonstrate command of the subset of the programming language presented in this unit, including its syntax, type system, scope rules, and libraries.
Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is in use in over 100 countries and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles.
ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html
This unit contributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA. The SFIA code is included:
- Programming/Software Development (PROG)
- Testing (TEST)
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Practical Assessment - 20% | |||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 30% | |||||
| 3 - Online Test - 50% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | |||||
| 2 - Communication | |||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | |||||
| 4 - Research | |||||
| 5 - Self-management | |||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | |||||
| 7 - Leadership | |||||
| 8 - 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 | |
| 1 - Practical Assessment - 20% | ||||||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 30% | ||||||||
| 3 - Online Test - 50% | ||||||||
Textbooks
Java How to Program : Early Objects Edition
11th Edition (2018)
Authors: Paul Deitel and Harvey Deitel
Pearson Education
Upper Saddle River Upper Saddle River , NJ , USA
ISBN: 9780134743356
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
If you prefer to study with a paper copy, they are available at the CQUni Bookshop here: http://bookshop.cqu.edu.au (search on the Unit code). eBooks are available at the publisher's website.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Java 8
- NetBeans 8.2
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
b.verma@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction to Object Technology and Java
Chapter
Chapter 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Introduction to Java Applications
Chapter
Chapter 2
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Introduction to Classes, Objects, Methods and Strings
Chapter
Chapter 3
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Control Statements: Part 1
Chapter
Chapter 4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Control Statements: Part 2
Chapter
Chapter 5
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Methods: A Deeper Look
Chapter
Chapter 6
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assignment one Due: Week 6 Thursday (27 Aug 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Arrays and ArrayLists
Chapter
Chapter 7
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Arrays and ArrayLists (Continue from
Week 7)
Chapter
Chapter 7
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Searching, Sorting and Big O
Chapter
Chapter 19
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Strings, Characters and Regular
Expressions
Chapter
Chapter 14
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Files and Streams
Chapter
Chapter 15
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assignment two Due: Week 11 Thursday (1 Oct 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Revision and Exam Preparation
Chapter
Lecture Notes from Weeks 1 - 12
Exam Preparation Notes
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Practical Assessment
This assessment item is designed to test your understanding of the programming concepts covered in weeks 1-6 through the development and testing of a Java program. Further details will be provided on the unit website.
Week 6 Thursday (27 Aug 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 8 Thursday (10 Sept 2020)
- Sound program design.
- Appropriate use of comments, variables, constants, types, operators, expressions, statements and loops.
- Appropriate use of objects, classes and methods.
- Use of good programming practice/techniques.
- Comprehensive testing of the program.
- Compilation and execution of the program using a modern IDE.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Self-management
- Apply procedural concepts (methods, iteration, selection) to the realisation of object behaviour
2 Practical Assessment
This assessment item is designed to test your understanding of the programming concepts covered in weeks 1-10 through the development and testing of a Java program. Further details will be provided on the unit website.
Week 11 Thursday (1 Oct 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Review/Exam Week Thursday (15 Oct 2020)
- Sound program design.
- Appropriate use of comments, variables, constants, types, operators, expressions, statements and loops.
- Appropriate use of classes, objects, and methods.
- Use of good programming practice/techniques.
- Comprehensive testing of the program.
- Appropriate use of arrays/arrayLists, searching algorithms and sorting algorithms.
- Compilation and execution of the program using a modern IDE
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Self-management
- Develop professionally documented and thoroughly tested object-oriented applications using an industry standard integrated development environment (IDE)
- Apply procedural concepts (methods, iteration, selection) to the realisation of object behaviour
- Implement standard algorithms such as searching, sorting and sequential processing for arrays and lists of objects
3 Online Test
The online test will be in the form of a take home exam.
The take home exam will be scheduled in the examination period.
Marks will be released on the certification date.
No Assessment Criteria
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Implement standard algorithms such as searching, sorting and sequential processing for arrays and lists of objects
- Employ the stream abstraction to process records contained in sequential text files
- Demonstrate command of the subset of the programming language presented in this unit, including its syntax, type system, scope rules, and libraries.
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What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
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