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COSC1295/COSC2391
Advanced Programming/
Further Programming

School of Computing Technologies

STEM College
RMIT University
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Staff Contact Details

• Lecturer: Estrid He
– Email: estrid.he@rmit.edu.au

• Note: lab tutors do not provide support outside

contact hours (i.e., timetabled classes).
– Dipto Pratyaksa
– Vu Huy Mai
– Khang Vo

• Please post any queries on Canvas Discussion

Board.

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Class Times
Lectorials (week 1 – 12)

• Monday Lectorial 18:30 – 19:30, online via Microsoft

Teams
• Tuesday Lectorial 14:30 – 15:30, on campus: 008.11.068
• Friday Lectorial 11:30 – 12:30, campus: 008.11.068

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Class Times (cont.)

Practical labs (week 2 – 12)

Further Programming
• Monday Prac 14:30 – 16:30, online via Microsoft Teams
• Wednesday Prac 8:30 – 10:30, on campus 010.08.026
• Wednesday Prac 10:30 – 12:30, on campus 010.08.026
• Wednesday Prac 14:30 – 16:30, online via Microsoft Teams
• Thursday Prac 10:30 – 12:30, on campus 056.04.086-089

Advanced Programming
• Monday Prac 19:30 – 21:30, online via Microsoft Teams
• Tuesday Prac 10:30 – 12:30, on campus 014.11.037
• Wednesday Prac 16:30 – 18:30, on campus 010.08.026

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Queries
• Consultation
– For everyone: Tuesday 13:30 – 14:30 every
teaching week
– One-to-one: book via emails
• Please post your questions in the discussion
forum in Canvas
– Response is expected within 48 hours

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Course Objectives
• Prior Java programming experience is assumed
• Solve Complex problems
• Data Structures & Generics
• Object-oriented Concepts and Functional Programming
• Graphical User Interfaces and Event Handling via JavaFX
• Connect to Databases via JDBC
• Test your code with JUnit
• Introduce you to Design Patterns used in Industry

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Resources
• Recommended references:
– Y. Daniel Liang, Introduction To Java Programming and Data
Structures, 11th edition
– Yakov Fain, Java Programming: 24-Hour Trainer

• Canvas
– Weekly lecture notes and recordings (pre-class activities)
– Weekly lectorial notes
– Weekly practical lab materials

• Please use your teaching staff for help if you need it

– Your lab tutors are there to help, 2 hour labs each week
– Post questions to Discussion Board on Canvas

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Assessment
• Assignment 1 – 20%
– Smaller assignment designed to practice and demonstrate
developing a smaller Java program
• Assignment 2 – 45%
– Larger programming assignment, including OO Concepts, JCF,
JDBC (database connectivity), and a Graphical User Interface,
unit testing via the JUnit framework
• Multiple milestone submissions – 10%
– Submissions of code, in-lab demos/recorded presentations
explaining and executing the code, final interview
• Regular coding exercises during lectorials – 25%
– Week 5, 9, 12

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Plagiarism is an Offence
Plagiarism:
• 1. Submitting an assignment that contains other people’s work.
• 2. Helping other students to plagiarise.
To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use
• another person’s idea, opinion, or theory;
• any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings - any pieces of information - that are
not common knowledge;
• quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or
• paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words.

ALL SUBMITTED WORK MUST BE YOUR OWN

NOTE: we will be performing plagiarism checks on ALL submitted work.

PLEASE DO NOT plagiarise other peoples’ work, PLEASE DO NOT
co-develop solutions to assignments

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Syllabus

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Syllabus (cont.)

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Using the Java & Docs v8

• JDK can be downloaded from the Oracle site:
https://www.oracle.com/au/java/technologies/j
avase/javase-jdk8-downloads.html
• All the classes available and their method
details can be viewed easily using the Java
Docs.

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JDK vs JRE vs JVM

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/jvm-vs-jre-vs-jdk

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IDEs
• You may use
– Eclipse (highly recommended)
– IntelliJ by JetBrains
– Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code
– NetBeans
• Eclipse IDE is available in scheduled RMIT
computer labs.

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Review Question 1
• What is the relationship between a class and an
object?
A class is a template or blueprint used in creating the
instances
An object is an instance of the class

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Review Question 2
• How long does the data stored in an object
persist? How is it different from local variables?

Data stored in an object persists as long as the object

persists
Local variables persist until the end of their scope (e.g.,
method, if statement)

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Review Question 3
• What method is invoked for initialising the
data in an object?
Constructor method
Setter method if defined
public Account(String accountID, String accountName, double amount)
{
accID = accountID;
name = accountName;
balance = amount;
}

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Review Question 4
Constructor can return a value.
• True
• False

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Review Question 5
• How is an object accessed? Using reference variables

mum Account
dad Account

accID=“s123” accID=“g234”
name=“Mercy Brown” name= “David Brown”
balance=1000.0 balance=2000.0

mum = dad;

mum dad
Account Account

accID=“s123” accID=“g234”
name=“Mercy Brown” name= “David Brown”
balance=1000.0 balance=2000.0
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Review Question 6
• How do you decide what functionality should
be implemented in the superclass and what can
be left for the subclass to define later on?
Functionality common to all subclasses should
be placed in the superclass

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Review Question 7
• How do you refer to functionality defined in
the superclass from within the subclass?

You need super.method() if the method is

overridden in the subclass; otherwise, use
method() if public

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Review Question 8
A method defined in a superclass is redefined in a
subclass with an identical method signature. This is
called ___________.
• Method overloading
• Method overriding

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Review Question 9
• What does the term polymorphism refer to?

Polymorphism means that a variable of a super

class type can refer to an object of a subclass
type; the actual method invoked depends on the
object it is acting upon

SAccount
Account reference
account1

CAccount

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Review Question 10
Will the program below result in error during
compilation?
class A {
public void method1() {}
}

class B extends A {}

public class Test {

public static void main(String args[]) {
A a = new B();
B b = a;
}
}

Yes. It should be: B b = (B) a;

An explicit typecast is required to assign a
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Review Question 11
Which of the statements in the main method below will
result in error during compilation?
class A {
public void method1() {}
}
class B extends A {
public void method2() {}
}
public class Test {
public static void main(String args[]) {
B b = new B();
A a = b;
a.method1();
a.method2();
}
}
The statement resulting in error: a.method2();
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Review Question 12
What will be the output of the program below?
class A {
public void method1() {
System.out.print("A.method1");
}
}
class B extends A {
public void method1() {
System.out.print("B.method1");
}
}
public class Test {
public static void main(String args[]) {
B b = new B();
A a = b;
a.method1();
}
}

The output will be: B.method1

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Recap
• Course introduction
• Review of OO programming concepts
• Questions?

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