OOJava course materials what happened during last year

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OOJava course materials what happened during
last year?

• M. Ivanovic, K. Bothe

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AGENDA

• SubProject site current state
• Collected material from Berlin
• Collected material from Novi Sad
• Threads by Ioan, Timisoara
• Further steps and Conclusion

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SubProject site current state
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SubProject site current state
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SubProject site current state
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SubProject site current state
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SubProject site current state
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SubProject site current state
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SubProject site current state
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AGENDA

• SubProject site current state
• Collected material from Berlin
• Collected material from Novi Sad
• Threads by Ioan, Timisoara
• Further steps and Conclusion

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Collected material from Berlin

• Berlin prepared English versions of some
  important topics
• Basic Concepts of Object-Orientation Objects,
  Classes, Abstract Data Types
• Objects and Classes Additional Useful Features
• Inheritance, Polymorphism, Dynamic Binding
• Exception handling
• Interfaces
• Event handling
• Threads Processes
• MouseMaze
• With appropriate examples (sources).

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Collected material from Berlin

• My task was
• Deeply and critically (having in mind wishes of
  Novi Sad students) analyze slides (presentations)
  and prepare report with suggestions for
  improvements, additional slides, examples,
• Up to now we have students opinions and some
  suggestions but did not make changes ?

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AGENDA

• SubProject site current state
• Collected material from Berlin
• Collected material from Novi Sad
• Threads by Ioan, Timisoara
• Further steps and Conclusion

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Collected material from Novi Sad

• Serbian Java book,
• Preparation started
• 5 years ago
• Has been improving
• and enhancing from
• year to year
• Published in October
• 2005
• 200 copies, freely
• distributed to students
• (Tempus project)

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Collected material from Novi Sad

• Topics, presentations for Java course prepared
  according to Serbian Java book
• Serbian and English versions of presentations
  slides
• Further improvements are necessary division of
  some topics in smaller units (especially 4.)
• Current situation
• 1. Program Structure in Java (SE)
• 2. Primitive Data Types (SE)
• 3. Statements (SE)
• 4. Referential data types (SE)
• 5. Exception handling (S, in preparation)
• 6. Applets (S, in preparation)

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1. Program Structure in Java

• 1.1 Java Program Basic Elements
• 1.2 Example of some small Java Program
• 1.3 Java Program Structure

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2. Primitive Data Types

• 2.1 Importance of Data Types
• 2.2 Boolean Data Type
• 2.3 Integer Data Types
• 2.4 Real Data Types
• 2.5 Operators on Primitive Data Types

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3. Statements

• 3.1 Block
• 3.2 Empty Statement
• 3.3 Expression Statement
• 3.4 Conditional Statements
• 3.5 Iteration Statements
• 3.6 Labelled Statement
• 3.7 break Statement
• 3.8 continue Statement
• 3.9 return Statement

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4. Referential data types

• 4.1 Classes, Objects, Overloading, Static fields
  and methods
• Inheritance, Constructors,Polymorphism, Dynamic
  binding, Modifiers
• 4.2 Interfaces, Usage of interfaces, Multiple
  Inheritance, Interface Inheritance
• 4.3 Arrays, Arrays and Classes, Multidimensional
  Arrays
• 4.4 Operators on referential types

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5. Exception handling

• 5.1 try statement, throw statement
• 5.2 User-defined Exception Handling
• 5.3 User-defined Generation of Exceptions

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6. Applets

• 6.1 Getting started with applets, JFrame, JApplet
  classes, AWT, Swing
• 6.2 Drawing and Event Handling
• 6.3 Components, Containers, Layout Managers
• 6.4 Events and Listeners
• 6.4 Overview of Different Swing Components

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AGENDA

• SubProject site current state
• Collected material from Berlin
• Collected material from Novi Sad
• Threads by Ioan, Timisoara
• Further steps and Conclusion

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Threads by Ioan, Temisoara

• Topic for 2nd year students
• More difficult for students then Klaus
  presentation
• Experiment results part of another presentation

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AGENDA

• SubProject site current state
• Collected material from Berlin
• Collected material from Novi Sad
• Threads by Ioan, Timisoara
• Further steps and Conclusion

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Conclusion

• The main impression is that the major goal of the
  Berlin course is to offer a student a clear
  overview of the OOP using Java
• NS course goal, on the other hand, is to deeply
  involve students with the Java programming
  language specifics

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Conclusion

• Berlin teaching material
• More interesting
• Much more easy to follow
• Put stress on the difference between OOP and
  other programming paradigms
• Clearly shows the difference between Java and
  Pascal, C
• Introduces some basic data structures, like stack

• NS teaching material
• More compact
• Student is forced to struggle with terminology
• Put stress on the Java programming language
  specifics
• More detailed
• Students prefer this way of presentation
• Most of them like to minimize home work

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Source code in Berlin

• Students in Berlin get the source code of the
  Java
• examples in advance.
• They can run the program before the lecture.
• In that way, the slides did not contain the
  source code in all details.
• Students are expected to bring along theprinted
  source code to the lecture.   
• This concept, however, is not so easy to
  accomplish in a lecture.
• Conclusion The opinion of the students of Novi
  Sad is right It is easier to have all
  information (source code) collected in one
  presentation file.

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General Conclusions

• Opinion of Novi Sad students
• Students need more explanations -they expect more
  details, examples with a lot of code.
• Animations and effects are good, but the fact
  that there isnt enough code on slides, makes
  slides less worthy that they maybe should be.
• The lectures should have more examples and
  appropriate source code because its much closer
  to students for understanding.

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Further steps - General Idea about Course Material

• Seems that Berlin and Novi Sad are most
  interested in preparation of joint material ?.
• Prepare a collection of different topics and
  concepts (just language, emphasize on OO design
  and style of programming, advanced topics, some
  real complex applications,).
• Use different versions of the same topics
  (members of project - Berlin, Novi Sad,
  Temisoara, Belgrade, Skopje,, available Internet
  material)
• For specific topic make mixture pick different
  parts of different presentations determine
  responsible person
• Prepare complete materials for various stiles of
  courses
• Too difficult and time consuming, almost
  impossible
• Real solution Every lecturer can prepare
  his/her own course based on available pool of
  different topics (lecturer can make specific
  selection)