Biocomputing II: Programming with Perl and Java

Module Organiser: Dr Andrew Martin

Building on the Biocomputing I module, this covers advanced Perl programming topics, including how to create Web and database applications. Object-oriented programming in Java is taught using the application development environment Eclipse.

Programming Applications in Perl
Lecture 1: Web Applications: HTML, XHTML and CSS (Andrew Martin)
Lecture 2: Web Applications: Perl CGI (Andrew Martin)
Lecture 3: Web Services and Remote Procedure Calling (Andrew Martin)

Programming in Java
Lecturer: Dr Irilenia Nobeli
Lectures 4 to 10: These lectures cover core Java programming topics, including:

• Object-oriented programming
• Creating and using objects
• Inheritance and polymorphism
• Interfaces, cosntructors and the Java API
• Exception handling
• The Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Eclipse.

For further details, see Java course materials.