COSC1295 Advanced Programming, sem 1 2021

Assignment Part 1: Console Implementation

Due date: Multiple milestone submissions. Final submission due 9am Monday May 31, 2021. No late submissions accepted unless Special Consideration is granted in advance.

Weighting: 50% of your final grade.
In addition, multiple milestones through the semester to a total of 15 marks.

1. Outline

NOTE: Carefully read this document. In addition, regularly follow the Canvas assignment discussion board for assignment related clarifications and discussion.

In this assignment you are required to work individually to develop a Resident Care System using Java. Using Java as a vehicle, you are required to demonstrate your understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, generics, graphical user interfaces, unit testing and object relational mapping building on the foundations laid by the Programming Fundamentals course and further developed in COSC1295. The system you develop should be maintainable and extensible as well as produce substantial value for the stakeholders by improving the level of patient care. The marks will therefore be awarded both for your functionality as well as justifying the design decisions and code quality. During the final face to face assessment you will also be required to justify your design decisions as well as explain how your program can be extended to meet other related requirements.

This assignment is structured to let you incrementally build your product throughout the semester by incorporating the OO design principles, Java constructs and technologies introduced in the notes and videos on Canvas, and developed in the lecturorial and prac sessions. You are required to ensure you make steady progress and marks will be awarded in the prac classes for completing specific milestones. The main purpose of this assignment is to develop and demonstrate your problem-solving skills by applying the concepts taught for a reasonably complex open-ended problem (and to create a complete working system based on agile specifications). You should not be overly concerned about every minute detail and are free to make reasonable assumptions (you may check with your lab-tutor if in doubt, who will also mark your final assignment).

Disclaimer: the specification in this assignment is intended to represent a simplified version of a system in real life and thus is not meant to be an accurate simulation of any real system or service that is being used commercially.

Assessment Type: Individual assignment; no group work permitted. Submit online via Canvas. Marks are awarded for meeting requirements as closely as possible according to assignment specifications and the supplied rubric. Clarifications/updates will be made via announcements/relevant discussion forums.

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improved by researching and identifying other technologies and tools in a separate one-page report. specifications and assessment criteria will follow throughout the semester.

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2. Assessment Criteria

This assessment will determine your ability to implement Object-Oriented Java code according to the specifications shown below. In addition to functional correctness (i.e. getting your code to work) you will also be assessed on code quality. Specifically:

3. Learning Outcomes

This assessment is relevant to the following Learning Outcomes:

CL01: use the Java programming language in the implementation of small to medium sized application programs that illustrate professionally acceptable coding and performance standards.

CL02: demonstrate knowledge of the basic principles of the object-oriented development process and apply this understanding to the analysis and design of solutions for small to medium scale problems.

CLO3: describe and apply basic algorithms and data structures, in particular simple searching and sorting of data stored in data structures and manipulating data.

CLO4: implement basic event-driven programming and graphical user interfaces in Java.

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