Introduction to programming using Java

Software life cycle: importance of correctly identifying the problem, iterative nature of software development, software maintenance

Design methodology: the application of the top-down design method using step-wise refinement to produce pseudo-code solutions to problems, incorporating constructs for sequence selection, iteration, abstraction and re-use

Verification and testing: the use of desk-top execution, simple debugging strategies and more formal approaches to testing e.g. black box white box boundary analysis and equivalence classes

Applications of standards and conventions: software maintenance and developing a professional approach to coding

Constructs and features of a structured high level programming language: control constructs, operators, procedural abstraction, simple I/O and use of libraries

Data types – primitive types: constants, variables, arrays and simple structured data

Object orientated design and implementation: inheritance and polymorphism

Software support environment: use of an IDE editors compiler/linkers and operating systems

Basic OOP

Abstraction

Polymorphism

Inheritance

Control Structures & logic (if/else etc)

Arrays, Lists, dictionaries, vectors, sets

Variables, assignment, arithmetic expressions, declarations, data types

File handling & I/O

Testing & Debugging code

IDE use

Pseudocode