Competency information
Details
Establish a development environment and undertake program development.
Considerations
- Development toolkits.
- Establishing a virtual machine (VM) in different operating system (OS) environments.
- Development environments, e.g. Eclipse, etc.
- Libraries
- Object-oriented programming.
- Use and extension of libraries.
- Sources and use of specialist libraries.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Design and code a small programme in Java or an alternative object-oriented programming language for bioinformatic application and proceed to test and debug the program in accordance with good programming practice. (For example for transforming large data sets, which meets simple requirements expressed in plain language). |