DAPE1400 Programming Course description

The course shall give the students a basic understanding of and skills in imperative programming principles and object-oriented programming. Students from the bachelor's degree program in applied computer technology can choose between this course or ADTE1400 Basic Programming for 1 semester.

No requirements over and above the admission requirements.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge The student has acquired a basic understanding of the following programming topics:

• types
• instructions, instruction sequences and instruction jumps
• functions (procedures)
• tables (arrays)
• classes and objects
• inheritance
• polymorphism

Skills

The student is capable of handling the following programming constructs in Java:

• operators and types
• control structures
• classes, constructors and methods
• abstractions and simple graphic user interfaces

General competence

The student is familiar with:

• basic principles for creating programs
• the connection between programming language and program development
• concepts relating to the quality and readability of code

Lectures and individual exercises. The exercises are based on the students’ own work, supervised by the lecturer and/or a student assistant.

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can sit the exam:

• 3 assignments
• 2 individual tests

Individual written exam, 3 hours

The exam result can be appealed.

None.

Pass/Fail

One or several internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.