Software and Programming I Software and Programming I Lecturers: Roman Kontchakov and Carsten Fuhs Programmes: BSc Computing, BSc IS&M, BSc Data Science and FdSc Time: Thursday 2pm - 5pm and 6pm - 9pm (additional optional tutorials 5pm - 6pm) Room: MAL B04 (A-H: 2-3.30pm, I-Z: 3.30-5pm) and MAL B20 (A-L: 6-7.30pm, M-Z: 7.30-9pm) Lab: MAL 109 (2-5pm) and MAL 414/415 (6-9pm) Code: COIY018H5 Textbook Cay S. Horstmann Java for Everyone 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2013 Companion Web Site (including worked examples and screencasts) Electronic version (via Birkbeck Library) Schedule and Slides 16 Jan Introduction. Basic Elements of Java: HelloWorld and PrintSquares Lab: InterestCalculator. 23 Jan Conditional Statements. Method call stack walk-through. Lab: InterestCalculator2, RomanNumber and RomanNumber2. Marked Exercise 1: LeapYear (deadline: 6 Feb) 30 Jan Loops and Expressions. Lab: PrintHelloWorldWhile, PrintHelloWorld, InterestCalculator3 and InterestCalculator4. Marked Exercises 2 & 3: Powers & BalancedParentheses (deadline: 13 Feb) 6 Feb Arrays and Basic Algorithms. Lab. Marked Exercise 4: ArrayExercises (deadline: 20 Feb). 13 Feb Test 1.1, Test 1.2. (answers 1.1, answers 1.2). Example (answers). Lab. 20 Feb Objects and Classes. Lab. 27 Feb More on Objects and Classes. Lab. Marked Exercise 5: CashRegisterP816 and CashRegisterP816Test (deadline: 12 Mar). 5 Mar Inheritance and Subclasses. Lab. Marked Exercise 6: Team, Game and GameTest (deadline: 19 Mar). 12 Mar Classes and Arrays. Lab: Student and StudentTest; with subclasses: Person, StudentR, Tutor and PeopleTest. 19 Mar Object-Oriented Design. Lab. 26 Mar Input-Output and Exception Handling. Test 2 (answers). 14 May Revision Lecture. Exam Papers: SP1-2016, SP1-2017, SP1-2018 and SP1-2019. 21 May Revision Lecture 2. ?? June Exam Assessment Coursework: 25% Test 1 (13 Feb, open-book test, 80 minutes): 10% 6 Lab Exercises (the exercises are a pre-requisite for Test 2): 5% Test 2 (26 Mar, open-book test, 80 minutes): 10% Examination: 75% (past exam papers can be found at Birkbeck eLibrary) Labs Lab: MAL 109 Teaching Assistants: Tobi Brodie, Ping Brennan Software and Links Java SE SDK Virtual Machine and development tools (compiler, etc.) BlueJ Integrated Development Environment (BlueJ tutorial) Greenfoot Educational software designed to make learning programming easy and fun CodinGame A website has coding puzzles and games Java tutorials Practical guides for programmers by Oracle Java 8 API specification A list of all packages and classes with descriptions of their methods
