Software and Programming III

• Credit value: 15 credits at Level 6
• Convenor: Dr Keith Mannock
• Assessment: a programming portfolio (50%) and three-hour examination (50%)

In this module you will have the opportunity to further develop the scope of your problem-solving skills by continuing your study of advanced programming techniques.

You should study a (free) short course in the term prior to taking the prerequisite module. The short course completes the coverage of Java started in Software and Programming I and II and is available as a separate module on Moodle. On enrolling for the Software and Programming III module you will receive access to the short course materials.

Indicative syllabus

• Recursive methods
• Further development of the ideas of inheritance, polymorphism and abstraction
• Generic classes and methods, including wildcards
• Functional interfaces and lambdas
• The Collections framework
• The reflection API
• Modularity, versioning, packaging and managing the build process
• Concurrent programming
• Graphical/Web user interfaces
• REST APIs
• Linked and self-referential data structures: linked lists, stacks, queues and trees

By the end of this module, you will have the necessary skills for developing software using the object-oriented and functional programming paradigms through appropriate programming languages (e.g. Java, Kotlin and Rust).