Syllabus 2008/2009 EDA011

Syllabus academic year 2008/2009
(Created 2008-07-17.)

PROGRAMMING, FIRST COURSE

EDA011

Higher education credits: 7,5. Grading scale: TH. Level: G1 (First level). Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish. EDA011 overlap following cours/es: EDA010, EDA015, EDA016, EDA017, EDA390, EDA500, EDA501, EDA616, EDA618, EDAA10, EDA010, EDA015, EDA016, EDA017, EDA390, EDA500, EDA501, EDA616, EDA618 och EDAA10. Compulsory for: N1, Pi1. Course coordinator: Christian Söderberg, Christian.Soderberg@cs.lth.se, Inst f datavetenskap. Assessment: Written examination. To qualify for the written examination, students must have completed the compulsary assignments. Parts: 2. Home page: http://www.cs.lth.se/EDA011.

Aim
The students shall learn to write small and medium-sized computer programs and receive basic knowledge of object-oriented programming and the programming language Java.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

be able to explain, at a basic level, what happens in a computer when a program is executed
be able to explain fundamental concepts in object-oriented and imperative programming
be able to explain and give examples of use of fundamental algorithms, for example for searching and sorting
be able to describe and give examples of use of fundamental data structures such as arrays, matrices and lists

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

be able to develop and implement algorithms to solve simple problems
be able to implement Java classes, starting from given specifications
be able to structure programs, both using subroutines and using classes and methods
be able to develop a model of a small system, using classes and methods
be able to use tools to write, test and debug programs

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

be able to estimate the degree of difficulty of writing different programs
be able to independently learn to write programs in programming languages similar to Java

Contents
Program constructs, development of elementary algorithms, usage of library classes, testing and debugging. Arrays, searching and sorting. Introduction to functional and data abstraction. Implementation of classes, encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. Fundamentals of modelling. Exercise session which give the students experience of problem analysis, program development and program testing.

Literature
Material distributed by the department.

Parts

Code: 0105. Name: Examination.
Higher education credits: 4,5. Grading scale: TH. Assessment: Written examination. The final grade of the course is based on the grade of the written examination. To qualify for the written examination the hand-in assignments must have been completed. Contents: Written examination.

Code: 0205. Name: Assignments.
Higher education credits: 3. Grading scale: UG. Assessment: Completed the course assignments. Contents: Hand-in assignments.