Course Objectives

• This course provides an introduction to object oriented programming (OOP) using the Java programming language.
  • Its main objective is to teach the basic concepts and techniques which form the object oriented programming paradigm
  
  
• Students completing the course should know:
  • The model of object oriented programming: abstract data types, encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism
  • Fundamental features of an object oriented language like Java: object classes and interfaces, exceptions and libraries of object collections
  • How to take the statement of a business problem and from this determine suitable logic for solving the problem; then be able to proceed to code that logic as a program written in Java.
  • How to test, document and prepare a professional looking package for each business project using javadoc.