Australian Vocational Education and Training/ICTPRG527 Apply intermediate object-oriented language skills

ICTPRG527 - Apply intermediate object-oriented language skills
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to undertake intermediate level programming tasks using an object-oriented programming language.It applies to programmers in a variety of fields who are required to produce programs in object-oriented languages.

Elements and Performance Criteria
After studying this unit you will be able to:


 * Build applications using the provided language utilities
 * Review the program requirements
 * Divide multiple source-code files into logical units and packages
 * Use at least two of the utilities of the target language, allowing for the internal storage of collections of data
 * Use the utilities of the target language, providing internal data-sorting and searching facilities
 * Employ integrated-development environment facilities, to make files to automate program building
 * Follow the guidelines for developing maintainable code, adhering to coding standards
 * Use the facilities in the language for persisting objects to binary files
 * Use the operator and function or method overloading facilities available in the language, at an introductory level
 * Use exception-handling techniques to ensure program stability
 * Use of a class that is based on multiple inheritances


 * Write programs that interact with a database
 * Design and implement programs that connect to a database
 * Design and implement programs that use the language facilities to extract, update, and delete data stored in a database
 * Design and implement programs that use the language facilities to manipulate database structure (query, create and delete)
 * Write programs that deliver transactional integrity


 * Write the graphical user interface
 * Employ the graphical user interface (GUI) framework, or text windowing interface, appropriate to the chosen language
 * Use standard GUI components
 * Use the facilities within the language for GUI objects to respond to user and program-generated events


 * Debug the application
 * Use stand-alone debugging tools, or tools provided by the integrated development environment, to examine variables, and trace the running code
 * Use the debugger to detect logical and coding errors
 * Use the tracing of code and examination of variable contents during execution, to detect and correct errors


 * Test the application
 * Design and document limited tests of code
 * Undertake limited testing of the produced code to ensure that it complies with the program specification
 * Capture and document the test results


 * Create and maintain documentation
 * Read and interpret the supplied design document, to create the code
 * Create and maintain program documentation

Build applications using the provided language utilities

 * overloading in php
 * exception handling in php
 * inheritance in php

Write programs that interact with a database

 * php connect to mysql
 * mysql transactions

Debug the application

 * debugging php using the netbeans ide
 * using simpletest for unit testing php

Create and maintain documentation

 * how to generate PHP documentation using ApiGen with NetBeans IDE

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