On the course architecture and course homepage

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On the course architecture and course homepage

• Mirjana Ivanovic
• Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics and
  Informatics
• Trg Dositeja Obradovica 4, Novi Sad
• mira_at_im.ns.ac.yu
• Ioan Jurca
• Politehnica University of Timisoara,
• Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
  Timisoara
• ionel_at_cs.utt.ro
• Klaus Bothe
• Humboldt-University, Institute of Informatics
• Rudower Chaussee 25, Berlin
• bothe_at_informatik.hu-berlin.de

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Evaluation of questionnaires on Java INTEREST

• 6 groups expressed interest 2 Belgrades, Berlin,
  Novi Sad, Plovdiv, Timisoara
• 4 claims that they are VERY (2 FAIR) interested
  in CREATION of teaching material
• 4 claims that they are VERY (2 FAIR) interested
  in USING teaching material
• Of 6 groups, 6 Java lecturers are now project
  participants (Belgrade-ETF, Tartalja included
  also)
• Everywhere except in Berlin, Java is NOT the
  first programming language.

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Evaluation of questionnaires on Java CURRICULUM

• Taught in different semesters, last differently
• Belgrade-MF 5-6th (36 lh),
• Belgrade-ETF 4th (16 lh)
• Berlin 1st, (60 lh 30 30)
• Novi Sad 3-4th, (40 lh)
• Plovdiv MSc studies (60 60 lh in
  two years)
• Timisoara 4th (28lh)

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Evaluation of questionnaires on Java EXAMES

• Exams organized in different ways
• Belgrade-MF seminar workwrittenoral
• Belgrade-ETF writtenoral
• Berlin practical assignments
• paperwork
  assignments
• Novi Sad practical assignments oral
• Plovdiv practical assignments
• Timisoara practical assignments written
  written

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Evaluation of questionnaires on Java MATERIALS

• Lecture relies
• almost completely on existing literature in
  Belgrade-ETF
• others are mostly original and partly rely on
  existing literature.
• Teaching material is mostly in ownership of
  lecturers.
• Electronic form .ppt, .doc, .tex, some have
  none (Plovdiv, Timisoara)

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Evaluation of questionnaires on Java LITERATURE

• L. Lemay and R.Cadenhend Sams Teach Yourself
  Java 1.2 in 21 Days, 1998 (2000) (2x)
• Horton Beginning Java 2 - JDK 1.3, Wrox Press
  Ltd, 2000.
• B. Eckel Thinking in Java, 2E, Prentice Hall,
  2000. (2x)
• Arnold, K., Gosling, J., Holmes, D., "The Java?
  Programming Language," Third Edition, Sun
  Microsystems Inc., 2000. (2x)
• Schildt, H., "Java? 2 The Complete Reference,"
  The McGraw Hill Companies, 2001.
• S. Kamin et all An introduction to computer
  science using Java
• H. Schildt Java 2 The Complete Reference,
  McGraw Hill, 2001
• C.Horstmann, Big Java, Wiley,2002
• J.Nino, F. Hosch, An Introduction to Programming
  and Object-Oriented Design Using Java, Wiley,
  2002
• M. Page-Jones Fundamentals of Object-Oriented
  Design in UML, Addison-Wesley, 2000

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Evaluation of questionnaires on Java CONCLUSIONS

• Differences (semester, duration, exams)
• No joint course, but joint material (i.e., pool
  of slides, assignments, supporting examples,
  exercises, longer (seminar) assignments,
• Requires methodological concepts
• Part I imperative constructs
• Part II OO constructs

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Java Joint Course Topics Part I - Imperative

• Introduction on programming languages (in case
  that Java is the first programming language)
• The language overview (elements of Java)
• Simple data types
• (Expressions and) control structures
• Structured data types array
• Methods
• Recursion
• Complex examples with arrays (searching and
  sorting)

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Java Joint Course Topics Part II - OO and
advanced

• Introduction to OOP (OOP in general, place of
  Java, its development,...)
• Basic notions of OOP
• Classes and objects. Class methods and variables.
  Object creation.
• Inheritance and polymorphism
• Concatenated list structures
• Trees
• Packages
• Interfaces
• Abstract classes
• Introduction to UML
• Exceptions
• GUI development (and event handling)
• Class libraries, Java Collection Framework.
• Reflection in Java
• Threads
• Basic notions of WWW
• Applets
• Remote Method Invocation

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Java Joint Course Topics Part III - Environments

• Usage of JDSE JDK 1.XX

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Java Joint Course Topics Part IV Java
programming at large

• Introducing SE principles in Java programming

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Proposition for Joint Course - Material
Preparation

• D. Tošic Methods, Introduction to UML
• I. Jurca Threads
• S. Stoyanov RMI
• K. Bothe Introducing SE principles...
• N. Ibrajter Refelection in Java
• Ž. Komlenov gathering as much existing examples
  as possible (separate presentation)

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Existing Examples - Division

• Principal suggestion is to divide the examples
  into at least three groups
• Supporting Java examples - extra examples,
  similar to those presented during the lecture,
  intended to encourage students' individual
  experimenting.
• Short exercises - for instance, practical
  assignments, lab exercises, etc.
• Longer examples - more complicated tasks, given
  as seminar assignments, with longer deadlines (up
  to several months).
• Additional material.

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Existing Examples List of assignments (as a
basis for a mark)

• Subset of previous groups, or
• Separate pool

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Java JCM the site

• perun.im.ns.ac.yu/java
• In construction
• Next, significantly updated version, after the
  workshop - please send topics to mira_at_im.ns.ac.yu

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Java JCM - Conclusions

• Good basis for more qualitative teaching
• Good opportunity to establish compatible courses
  on different Universities
• Better collaboration between lecturers and
  students

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• THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ATTENTION