BSc Computer Science with Industrial Experience

To specify, design, test, develop, deploy, debug and run programmes of a significant
complexity using an object-oriented language (ie Java) and its standard platform. To identify
the strengths and weaknesses of the paradigm and the language.

• To identify the fundamental building blocks of new programming languages in general
• Identify the advantages of object-oriented programming.
• Design classes using the UML notation and write the code of a specified class.
• Explain and implement object oriented concepts including inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces and abstraction.
• Identify appropriate situations for reading/writing files from an application, be able to make secure, robust calls out to the relevant file-handling libraries in Java.
• Use data structures of the Java Collections Framework, and create your own data structures.
• Build interactive graphical applications using JavaFX that respond to user events and consider some basic usability concerns. Use custom components to achieve these goals where appropriate.
• Describe the benefits of grouping files into packages. Create and deploy packages, use existing libraries.
• Apply concepts above to existing programming language knowledge, i.e. Python.

Week 1: Crash course on Java I

Week 2: Crash course on Java II

Week 3: Working with input/output and String handling

Week 4: Advanced Object Oriented Programming

Week 5: Error and file handling

Week 6: Reading week: security

Week 7: Introduction to building GUIs with Java

Week 8: Generics

Week 9: Data Structures I

Week 10: Building GUIs with Java and multithreading

Week 11: Data Structures II

Week 12: Revision

Lectures, workshops, clinics, coursework, face to face mentoring by TAs. Use of online quizzes.

COMP16412 reading list can be found on the Department of Computer Science internal pages