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FIT2099

Faculty of Information Technology

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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

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Faculty

Information Technology

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Synopsis

This unit introduces students to object-oriented design principles and their application to the construction of quality software. Students will learn the fundamental concepts that underlie modern object-oriented languages, and will learn how to implement their designs using at least one. Students will also learn how to use standard notation to illustrate their designs.

Outcomes

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

  1. iteratively construct object-oriented designs for small to medium-size software systems, and describe these designs using standard software engineering notations including UML class diagrams (in conceptual and concrete forms), UML interaction diagrams and, if applicable, UML state diagrams;
  2. evaluate the quality of object-oriented software designs, both in terms of meeting user requirements and in terms of good design principles, using appropriate domain vocabulary to do so;
  3. implement object-oriented designs in an object-oriented programming language such as Java, using object-oriented programming constructs such as classes, inheritance, abstract classes, and generics as appropriate;
  4. use available language tools, such as debuggers and profilers, and good programming practice to debug their implementations systematically and efficiently;
  5. use software engineering tools including UML drawing tools, integrated development environments, and revision control to create, edit, and manage artifacts created during the development process.

Assessment

Examination (2 hours): 40%; In-semester assessment: 60%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

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

  • Two hours lectures
  • Two hours laboratories

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 2-3 hours of personal study per one hour of lecture time in order to satisfy the reading, tute, prac and assignment expectations.

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

Prerequisites

(ENG1003 and ENG1060) or one of FIT1045, FIT1048 or FIT1051

Prohibitions