Technical and Methodological Knowledge

• Basic and background knowledge about the construction of programs in a strongly typed object-oriented programming language (Java)
• Systematic and constructive approach to the construction and evaluation of programs

Cognitive and Practical Skills

• Abstract and system-oriented mindset in programming
• Ability to use simple formal and informal methods in the construction and evaluation of programs

Social Competencies, Innovation and Creativity

• Self-organisation and personal responsibility
• Intellectual curiosity in programming

• Goals of and a notion of quality in programming
• Abstract model (= object or abstract machine) described by a program
• Basic programming language constructions and their usage
• Assertions (formal and informal) and test cases for the specification and evaluation of program behavior
• Addressing runtime errors (debugging, exception handling, program analysis)
• Use of programming environments and tools
• Problem solving strategies, data structures and algorithms
• Implementation of lists, stacks and trees
• Recursion in data structures and algorithms
• Principles of object-oriented programming (data abstraction, subtyping, polymorphism, inheritance)
• Use of standard libraries
• Input and output as well as the internal representation of data
• Primitive use of genericity and concurrency
• Safer programming (sources of danger and prevention)
• Pointers to and examples in other programming languages to increase the interest in programming