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.
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:
FIT9017 or equivalent
Michael Smith
Contact hours: To be advised
At the completion of this unit, students will have -
A knowledge and understanding of:
Examination (3 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%
| Assessment Task | Value | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment 1 | 20% | Week 7 - Friday 9 September, 2011 |
| Assignment 2 | 20% | Week 12 - Friday 21 October, 2011 |
| Examination 1 | 60% | To be advised |
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Prescribed Text
Objects First with Java (4th Edition), Barnes and Kolling (Prentice Hall), 2009
You will need access to:
| 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 | Note: Tutorial labs commence in Week 1 of semester |
| 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 Friday 9 September, 2011 |
| 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 | Assignment 2 due Friday 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
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 is by interview. You will be asked to demonstrate your system at an interview in the week following the submission date. At the interview you 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 0 marks for the assignment.
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 is by interview. You will be asked to demonstrate your system at an interview in the week following the submission date. At the interview you 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 0 marks for the assignment.
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.
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You can find Monash's Education Policies at:
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Key educational policies include:
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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