F27SB - Software Development 2

To impart further techniques of object orientation

To introduce simple data structures and algorithms

1. Inheritance and generics (1.1 hierarchies, subclasses, polymorphism, static and dynamic type, overriding, dynamic method lookup)

2. Designing classes (2.1 coupling, cohesion, abstraction, modularisation, types)

3. Abstract classes (3.1 abstract methods, interfaces)

4. Error-handling (4.1 defensive programming, exceptions, assertions, testing)

5. Collection classes (5.1 lists, tuples, arrays, dictionaries)

6. Working with collections (6.1 generators, iterators, comprehensions)

By the end of the course, students should be able to do the following:

Describe the concepts related to object object-oriented programming (OOP) such as class, cohesion, coupling, inheritance, polymorphism, and interface.
Apply OOP principles to produce well designed, i.e. extendable and maintainable, code.
Modify code incrementally to improve code quality by applying the OOP principles.
Implement basic control structures in a different imperative language.
Apply OOP principles from LO2 to a different imperative language.
Describe the underlying transferable programming principles of imperative and OO programming.

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SCQF Level: 7

Credits: 15