Level/category

Professional studies

Teaching language

Swedish

Type of course

Compulsory

Recommended year of study

3

Total number of ECTS

5 cr

Competency aims

The objective of this course is to provide the student with a
thorough understanding of the Java programming language and
object oriented programming.

Learning outcomes

Having successfully completed this course the student will be
able
to make simple text-based Java programs. He will also
understand
how larger and more advanced programs can be constructed
with
the help of the Java application programming interface (Java-
API)classes.

Course contents

- Integrated Development Environment BlueJ for Java
- Object oriented programming concepts: classes, class
hierarchies, objects, methods, inheritance, overloading
- Basic language syntax: variables, operators, expressions,
statements, blocks, control flow statements
- Standard classes
- Java documentation
- Data types
- Standard graphical user interface (GUI) components

Prerequisites and co-requisites

No prerequisites

Recommended or required reading

Per Holm: Objektorienterad programmering och Java.
Studentlitteratur, 2007 ISBN: 978-91-44-04830-7

David J. Barnes & Michael Kölling
Objects First with Java A Practical Introduction using BlueJ
Prentice Hall , 2006 ISBN: 0-13-197629-X

Study activities

  • Lectures - 30 hours
  • Exercise based learning - 30 hours
  • Project work and productions - 43 hours
  • Individual studies - 30 hours

Workload

  • Total workload of the course: 133 hours
  • Of which autonomous studies: 73 hours
  • Of which scheduled studies: 60 hours

Mode of Delivery

Participation in tuition

Assessment methods

Reports and productions

Teacher

Scherbakov-Parland Andrej

Examiner

Biström Johnny

Group size

No limit

Assignments valid until

Until date 2009-10-01

Assessment methods

Date will be announced later - Reports and productions

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