Study Guide

Objectives (course unit)

1. Student understands the concepts of object-oriented programming. 2. Student is able to implement Java programs and applications by utilizing object-oriented design. 3. Student knows how to program with Java programming language.

Content (course unit)

Basics object-oriented programming by using Java. Modularizing programs with classes and objects and utilizing object-oriented programming in program implementations.

Prerequisites (course unit)

Programming languages 1

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)

Students knows about object-oriented programming principles. Student is able to implement modularizing programs with classes and objects with guidance. Student is able to utilize object-oriented programming principles in simple program implementations with guidance.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)

Students knows object-oriented programming principles by using Java. Student is able to implement modularizing programs with classes and objects. Student is able to utilize object-oriented programming principles independently in different program implementations.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)

Students knows in depth object-oriented programming principles by using Java. Student is able to implement modularizing programs with classes and objects in diverse situations. Student is able to utilize object-oriented programming principles independently diversely in various different program implementations.

Location and time

This is said in lukkarikone / pakki / tuudo. Look it weekly; the place and time of lectures may vary!

Exam schedules

Exam will be kept in Exam system during last three weeks of the course.

Retake and raising of a grade is done also in Exam during May and August. Here the whole course is retaken or grade is raised; points from homeworks and project are not in effect (according to the rules of TAMK).

Assessment methods and criteria

Homeworks, exam and project are graded with points between 0 - 5 points.

Course average is weighted average of these; weights are:
- 35% of homeworks
- 35% of exam
- 30% of project

For homeworks following scale is used:

% of Homeworks done. Points
------------------------------- ---------
< 20% 0
< 35% 1
< 50% 2
< 65% 3
< 80% 4
>= 80% 5

For exam it's internal points are calculated but same scale is used as for home exercise activity.

For project it is designed to use steps where each additional step means more work but also more points. Points are given like the following: 0p -> 1p -> 2p -> 3p -> 4p -> 5p. More detailed information is given when the project is published at the end of March.

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Lectures, homeworks, a small project

Learning materials

John Lewis and William Loftus: Java Software Solutions Foundations of Program Design. 9th edition or newer. Pearson Education Inc.

In the lectures slides made out of this book are used (by book authors & company).

Student workload

Reserve time weekly for attending lectures (3h) and doing homeworks and at the end the project. Also reserve time for preparing to the exam.

Content scheduling

1. Recap of Programming Languages 1
2. Using classes and objects
3. Writing classes
4. Object Oriented Design
5. Arrays including object arrays
6. Inheritance
7. Polymorphism
8. Exceptions
9. Java API
10. Last part of the course: making the project

Completion alternatives

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Assessment criteria - fail (0) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

All these are coming from course criteria; this implementation uses them.

Assessment criteria - satisfactory (1-2) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

All these are coming from course criteria; this implementation uses them.

Assessment criteria - good (3-4) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

All these are coming from course criteria; this implementation uses them.

Assessment criteria - excellent (5) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

All these are coming from course criteria; this implementation uses them.