The course is intended to extend the student's knowledge to encompass a number of important programming techniques necessary for building a modern computing application. The course content will include techniques in Java to deal with a range of issues drawn from the following: program design using an object oriented programming model; modelling data using programming language type systems; event and exception programming; thread programming; persistence; and distributed programming.

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Exam 50%, coursework 50%.

The coursework cannot be redone because the feedback provided to the students after the original coursework would give any students redoing the coursework an unfair advantage. Students can resit the class test.

The course is intended to extend the student's knowledge to encompass a number of important programming techniques necessary for building a modern computing application. The course content will include techniques in Java to deal with a range of issues drawn from the following: program design using an object oriented programming model; modelling data using programming language type systems; event and exception programming; thread programming; persistence; and distributed programming. It will also cover in brief the underlying Java run time system and techniques found in other languages.

By the end of the course students will be able to:

1. Use the programming language concepts covered in the earlier Programming course: type checking, scoping, abstraction, data hiding and encapsulation; in an effective way;

2.  Describe the core concepts and issues involved in programming with polymorphic constructs, multiple threads of execution, and networking mechanisms in a general way;

3. Use these concepts in Java programs.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.