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 10078 (v.5) Software Technology 501
 
 
| Area: | Department of Computing |  | Contact Hours: | 5.0 |  | Credits: | 25.0 |  | Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |  | Tutorial: | 1 x 1 Hours Weekly |  | Practical: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |    | Introduction to Unix. Introduction to Java programming. Compiling and executing a Java program. Primitive Data Types, Numeric expressions - operators and operator precedence. Method argument passing, boolean expressions, program documentation. Introduction to Control Structures - If.Then.Else, Multi.way selection. The switch statement. Looping control structures - while loop, do.while loop, for loop. Object oriented programming, message passing, inheritance, abstract classes. Implementation of object oriented programming in Java. Arrays as a concept and their implementation in Java. The vector class in Java. Simple searching and sorting algorithms. Measuring algorithm efficiency. |  | 
 
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| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External |  | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y |  |  |  | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y |  |  |  
 
| Area External
 | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |  | Central External
 | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |  |  
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