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Introductory Programming In Java

2016 Activity Schedule

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The course material is organised into standard topics (the key symbol for each is shown in bold at the beginning):

• (J) Java Basics — describes the Java syntax and rules to structure a program, and the use of standard libraries (aka API) without which one cannot write anything significant;
• (O) Object-Oriented Programming — describes the programming paradigm which uses objects to structure data and operations as a unit of code, and how a program operates on objects;
• (F) Functional Programming — describes another programming paradigm which treats data and operations (code) on equal footing;
• (A) Algorithms and Data Structures — describes basic principles of how large amount of data can be organised, used and processed efficiently by a program;
• (P) Praxis — describes basic principles of how medium and large size programs can be created, documented, debugged and tested, and how the very process of software creation can be organised efficiently;
• (R) Rich Client Applications (RCA), a new name for Graphics User Interface Programming (GUI) — describes (only) basic principles of how to create programs with friendly user interfaces;
• (E) and (G) — will contain the final course review and exam preparation materials, and the content of guest lectures (should they go ahead)

where each topic is broken into several parts (marked as J1,O2, F5 etc). According to the logic of learning, each of our lectures will contain a discussion of a mixture of thesesmaller parts, but each such part will be given a separate reference as a lecture slides; the recorded discussion, however, will be linear and continuous.

Apart from the lecture materials, the schedule also specifies the activities for practical work — laboratory exercises (labs) and home works, their content and due dates (for home works), and also the release, content and due dates for the assignment projects.

The schedule for the mid-semester tests, the content of these tests, and the dates and preparation material for the final examination are also included.

The lectures marked by asterisk ^(*) represent material which is not part of the core curriculum, will not be examinable, and may not be discussed liveif time won't permit.

The Schedule

The final examination will be held during the autumn semester examination period.This will be a hybrid exam held in a computerlab, involving both theory questions and programming problems.

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