Technical and Methodological Knowledge:

After successful participation in the course students can describe the concepts and techniques (including design patterns) mentioned in "Subject of course" in technical terms.

Cognitive and Practical Skills:

After successful participation in the course students can

• apply the techniques mentioned in "Subject of course",
• translate programming tasks specified in natural language into executable program texts showing typical characteristics of a given object-oriented programming style,
• evaluate self-written program texts according to given criteria.

Social and Personal Competencies:

After successful participation in the course students can solve programming assignments also in a team.

• Overview of the object-oriented programming paradigm and typical concepts of object-oriented programmine languages
• Programming language concepts for modularity, substitutability, reuse, parameterization (including genericity), overloading, concurrency, and the static and dynamic use of types
• Techniques for the productive use of these concepts in an object-oriented style
• Some software design patterns

Didactic Concept

Weekly lectures impart foundations of the subject matter and give background information. Weekly programming assignments have to be solved in small groups. To achieve the goals it is important that students find their own individual approaches; the way to the solution is more important than the solution itself.

ECTS Breakdown

(3 ECTS is 75 hours)

• 49.7 h - Working on 9 programming assignments
• 00.3 h - Discussion of programming assignments (interview)
• 00.7 h - Introduction to the lecture
• 09.8 h - Lecture time
• 14.2 h - Preparation for exam
• 00.3 h - Oral exam

Registration

You have to register for the course as well as for one of the many groups named oopXn, where X is a letter in the name of the mentoring tutor and n a consecutive number. All other groups shown here will be used in January to arrange interview dates. Exact dates for interviews and exams will be subject to change until January (but will be close to the dates currently shown in the titles).

German

The course is given in German. The German version of this page contains more detailed infomation than the English one. Please press the "Deutsch" button.

Assessment of programming assignments and oral exam.

Solutions of programming assignments will be discussed and assessed in an interview in January. After that there will be an oral exam on the lecture topics between January and June. Assessments of programming assignments and oral exam contribute to the grade to equal parts. However, both parts must be positive for a positive grade. A negative interview or oral exam can be repeated only once within the course until June at latest.

Please register also for a group as described above.

The script is available in the Documents section. The two available versions differ in the format, not in their contents.

Programming assignments and lecture slides will also be put into the Documents section at the specified dates for assignments, and after the lectures, respectively.

Technical and Methodological Knowledge:

Before taking part in the course students are expected to be able to describe

• systematic approaches in programming and
• important concepts of an up-to-date and adequate programming language (preferably Java)

Cognitive and Practical Skills:

Before taking part in the course students are expected to be able to

• implement programming assignments given in natural language as executable programs,
• systematically apply practices and tools in programming,
• implement specified data abstractions, algorithms, and data structures in program code and
• apply techniques of object-oriented modeling.

Social and Personal Competencies:

Before taking part in the course students are expected to be able to

• work independently of other people for solving programming assignments and
• work together with other people in pairs.