A Java-based introductory programming course which includes aspects of graphical user-interfaces and Java2D graphics as well as good programming practice and software engineering.

1. Read and understand a Java-based software code of medium-to-high complexity.
2. Write a Java application of medium complexity (consisting multiple classes).
3. To use standard and third-party Java's API when writing your ownapplications.
4. Understand the basic principles of creating Java applications with graphical user interface (GUI).
5. Create your own GUI application of low complexity 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 approches 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.

Thirty one-hour lectures, six two-hour laboratory sessions.

COMP1100 or COMP2720

COMP1110 and COMP1510

Hortsman, Cay Big Java, 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A., 2007.

Other recommended resources will be listed on http://cs.anu.edu.au/Student/comp2750-6700.2008/java_resources.php