COMP6700       COMP2750
Introductory Programming
Java Programming for New Media
(Duke is running 'cause our course is intensive)

This is a Java-based introductory programming course which includes basics of object-oriented programming, algorithms and data structures, graphical user interface, good programming practice and software engineering.

The course will run in a semi-intensive mode for the first half of the First Semester (weeks 1–6). The following topics will be discussed:

• Java's syntax and program structure
• Objects, classes and object-oriented programming
• Introductory algorithms and data structures; Java Collections Framework
• Graphical user interface programming; Java Swing
• Annotations and self-documentation of Java programs
• Good programming practices and software development principles
• Rich Clients Applications with Swing
• JavaFX platform for Rich Internet Applications development

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

1. Read and understand a Java-based software code of medium-to-high complexity
2. Write and appropriately document a Java application of medium complexity (consisting multiple classes)
3. To use standard and third-party Java's API when writing your own applications
4. Understand the basic principles of object-oriented programming
5. Create simple Java applications with graphical user interface (GUI) using the AWT/Swing Java packages
6. Understand fundamental concepts of computer science: structure of computational process, algorithms and complexity of computation
7. Understand the basic approaches to designing software application and implementing the design using Java programming language
8. Create Java applications to manipulate media data (sound, images) using the standard Java packages javax.sound and Java 2D (for COMP2750 students)

Make sure you check the forum message boards on a regular basis:

• comp6700.announcements: I will post relevant announcements for the course on this notice board

• comp6700.talk: This is for you as students to use and share information

• Check the course activity schedule to determine exactly what lectures and labs are scheduled, and when assignments are due

• Verify lecture and lab times and venues on the ANU timetable

  Lectures

  Activity	Day	Time	Location
  Lectures A–B	Monday	3pm–5pm	PHYS T [Bld. 39]
  Lectures C–E	Thursday	11am–2pm	FSTY 103 [Bld. 48]
  Workshop	Saturday	10am–3.30pm	CHEM T2 [Bld. 34]

  
  

  Labs

  Lab Group	Day	Time	Location	Instructor
  Group 1	Thursday	9am–11am	CSIT N113 [Bld. 108]	Alexei Khorev
  Group 2	Thursday	3pm–5pm	CSIT N113 [Bld. 108]	Amir Hadad
  Group 3	Thursday	5pm–7pm	CSIT N113 [Bld. 108]	Amir Hadad

  
  

• Choose a lab and register for it using StReaMS.

• No need to make an appointment if you want to see me at the official consultation time in my office N214:

  Day	Time
  Monday	11.30am–12.30pm
  Friday	11.30am–12.30pm

• To see me at different time, a prior arrangement is necessary — use email

• Lecture slides and code examples

• Lab and home work exercises

• Assignments

• Previous exams

• Java resources

• The total course mark is comprised of marks for the lab and homework exercises (10%), the two assignments (2×15% = 30%) and the final theory exam, 60%.

• The assessment items will test the learning outcomes as follows:

  Assessment Item	Weight	Assesses Outcomes
  Labs/Homeworks	10%	1–4
  Assignment 1	15%	1–4,6,7
  Assignment 2	15%	1–4,5,7,8
  Final Exam	60%	1–4,6,7

• For greater details including the Final Course Mark, the Final Grade and the conditions for getting the Supplementary Examination, see the assessment scheme.

  Final marks are moderated in departmental examiners' meetings at the semester end and may be scaled as a result of this moderation.

• Text book

  We will be using the book Big Java, 3rd edition, by Cay Hortsman, John Wiley, 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-10554-2. The cost for students at the ANU COOP bookshop will be $129.95($118.25 with member's discount). If you consider it too costly (I do!), don't worry — there will be cheaper alternatives — see the list on the Java resources web page.

• Prerequisites for COMP2750: COMP1100 or COMP2720

  COMP2750 Unit description from Study@ANU

• Prerequisites for COMP6700: none

  COMP6700 Unit description from Study@ANU

• Course administrative handout (PDF).

• Course coordinator and lecturer is Alexei Khorev