MAJO5900 Master's Thesis Course description

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 work and teaching methods include lectures, seminars, skills training and self-study. Digital learning resources will be made available to students in advance, so that a lot of the time they spend at the university will be used to work on assignments and group work.

The following must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam:  ;

• a minimum attendance of 90 % at scheduled seminars and skills training sessions;

Portfolio assessment:

Part 1: Group assignment: Written analysis of an article in groups of up to 6 students, 1500 words (+/- 10 %)

Part 2: Individual written assignment, review of a fellow student’s analysis of an article in accordance with set criteria, up to 1000 words

Weighting: One overall grade is awarded based on the portfolio. Both assignments in the portfolio count equally with respect to grading, but if an F is awarded for one of the assignments, the overall grade will also be an F.

Resit exam: Students will be given one opportunity to submit a reworked version of the portfolio assignment(s) for which an F was awarded.

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Grade scale A-F

All exam papers are assessed by two examiners. At least 15 %;of the exams will be assessed by an external examiner. The remaining papers will be assessed by two internal examiners. The external examiner's assessment should benefit all students.;