Software and Programming I

Lecturers: Roman Kontchakov and Carsten Fuhs
Programmes: BSc Computing, BSc IS&M, BSc Data Science and FdSc
Time: Thursday 2pm - 5pm and 6pm - 9pm (additional optional tutorials 5pm - 6pm)
Room: MAL B04 (A-H: 2-3.30pm, I-Z: 3.30-5pm) and MAL B20 (A-L: 6-7.30pm, M-Z: 7.30-9pm)
Lab: MAL 109 (2-5pm) and MAL 414/415 (6-9pm)
Code: COIY018H5

Textbook

Cay S. Horstmann
Java for Everyone
2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Companion Web Site (including worked examples and screencasts)

Electronic version (via Birkbeck Library)

Schedule and Slides

16 Jan: Introduction. Basic Elements of Java: HelloWorld and PrintSquares
Lab: InterestCalculator.
23 Jan: Conditional Statements. Method call stack walk-through.
Lab: InterestCalculator2, RomanNumber and RomanNumber2.
Marked Exercise 1: LeapYear (deadline: 6 Feb)
30 Jan: Loops and Expressions.
Lab: PrintHelloWorldWhile, PrintHelloWorld, InterestCalculator3 and InterestCalculator4.
Marked Exercises 2 & 3: Powers & BalancedParentheses (deadline: 13 Feb)
6 Feb: Arrays and Basic Algorithms.
Lab.
Marked Exercise 4: ArrayExercises (deadline: 20 Feb).
13 Feb: Test 1.1, Test 1.2. (answers 1.1, answers 1.2). Example (answers).
Lab.
20 Feb: Objects and Classes.
Lab.
27 Feb: More on Objects and Classes.
Lab.
Marked Exercise 5: CashRegisterP816 and CashRegisterP816Test (deadline: 12 Mar).
5 Mar: Inheritance and Subclasses.
Lab.
Marked Exercise 6: Team, Game and GameTest (deadline: 19 Mar).
12 Mar: Classes and Arrays.
Lab: Student and StudentTest; with subclasses: Person, StudentR, Tutor and PeopleTest.
19 Mar: Object-Oriented Design.
Lab.
26 Mar: Input-Output and Exception Handling.
Test 2 (answers).
14 May: Revision Lecture.
Exam Papers: SP1-2016, SP1-2017, SP1-2018 and SP1-2019.
21 May: Revision Lecture 2.
?? June: Exam

Assessment

Coursework: 25%

Test 1 (13 Feb, open-book test, 80 minutes): 10%
6 Lab Exercises (the exercises are a pre-requisite for Test 2): 5%
Test 2 (26 Mar, open-book test, 80 minutes): 10%

Examination: 75% (past exam papers can be found at Birkbeck eLibrary)

Labs

Lab: MAL 109

Teaching Assistants: Tobi Brodie, Ping Brennan

Software and Links

Java SE SDK: Virtual Machine and development tools (compiler, etc.)
BlueJ: Integrated Development Environment (BlueJ tutorial)
Greenfoot: Educational software designed to make learning programming easy and fun
CodinGame: A website has coding puzzles and games
Java tutorials: Practical guides for programmers by Oracle
Java 8 API specification: A list of all packages and classes with descriptions of their methods