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COMP1206: Programming II
First Year, 2023/24 · Semester 2
Overall mark 86%
Event-driven Java applications, testing, and software design, with a JavaFX game project and an introduction to C.
SKILLS Object-Oriented Programming · Testing and Debugging · Version Control · GUI Programming · Unit Testing · Software Design Patterns
TECHNOLOGIES Java · JavaFX · Maven · JUnit · Git · C
What the module covered
This module built on Programming I with event-driven GUI programming, file and network I/O, concurrency, testing, and software design. Most of the teaching used Java, with a smaller introduction to C covering pointers and manual memory management.
The coursework was TetrECS, a JavaFX block-placement game with piece rotation, line clearing, scoring, and timed turns. My implementation included sound, saved high scores, and a multiplayer lobby connected to the course server over WebSockets. The game brought together a separate model for the game state, reusable interface components, and listeners that connected the two.
What I took from it
The introduction to build tools and unit testing has been particularly useful. Before this module, I mostly ran code through an IDE. Learning to build and run projects with Maven, and to write tests with JUnit, gave me a workflow I could also use from the command line for personal projects.