• At the end of this module, the successful student will be able to:

• Develop well-organised and modular code using object-oriented techniques such as inheritance.

• Design and construct Graphical User Interfaces with Swing.

• Understand and apply strategies to write robust code that can deals with errors gracefully.

• Understand and apply software engineering techniques to develop software projects.

By the end of this unit of teaching and learning, you will be able to:

• Use inheritance to improve programs where appropriate

• Create effective superclasses (the parent class)

• Create descendent subclasses (the ‘child’ of the superclass)

By the end of this unit of teaching and learning, you will be able to:

• Define and use Defensive Programming techniques in Java.

• Identify and handle different types of errors, including programmer, user, and system errors.

• Implement input validation to ensure the robustness of the program.

By the end of this unit of teaching and learning, you will be able to:

• define polymorphism in OOP

• use polymorphism via:

  • overriding

  • overloading

• Use and interpret extended access modifiers appropriately.

• Describe the benefits of abstraction in object-oriented programming.

• Define and use:

  • abstract classes

  • interfaces

• Read and write text files

• Use Readers, Writers and Streams in Java

By the end of this unit of teaching and learning, you will be able to:

• Define a form in Swing

• Place and use elements on a Canvas in Swing

• Use Action Listeners in Swing

• Pass data between forms

• Define more complex form elements

• Construct apps using forms

• Define and use multilevel inheritance

• Define and use multiple inheritance

• Explain the advantages and limitations of both

• Understand the key principles of software engineering.

• Recognise the importance of following best practices in software development.

• Learn how these principles contribute to the creation of robust, scalable, and maintainable software.