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FIT1051

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 26 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.

Faculty

Information Technology

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

South Africa

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will provide students with an overview of the fundamental knowledge and skills required to code applications. The topics covered will include: the context of programming in an industrial SDLC, dealing with code 'plumbing', data, using API library classes, common business logic patterns and their implementation using control structures, methods and modularity, value and reference types, coding custom driver and concept classes, class inheritance, interfaces, multi-class applications.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. describe the difference between large scale industrial programming and small scale or scientific programming;
  2. identify common logic patterns in problem descriptions and implement code solutions to these problems using best practice Java coding patterns;
  3. analyse and debug existing Java programs;
  4. describe and use the Java Class Libraries;
  5. code and test multi-class Java applications;
  6. apply good programming practices in accordance with industry standards and professional ethics.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • Two hours lectures
  • One hours tutorials
  • Two hours laboratories

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 3 hours of personal study per one hour of lecture time in order to satisfy the reading, tute, prac and assignment expectations.

See also Unit timetable information

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Business information systems
Computer networks and security
IT for business
Mobile apps development
Software development
Software engineering
Web development

Prohibitions

FIT1002

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/