Object-Oriented Programming

Through this web page you can access handouts, assignments, and solutions for the course in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) on dat1/inf1/sw3.

Note that we will come through the group rooms on Friday the 5^th of September from 8.30 to 10.00. The assignments are (a) take a look at the Java documentation at Java's home page http://java.sun.com. (b) Find the Java compiler on the computer science department's network and try to compile the small program found here.

Course Overview

Course No.	Date	Topic
1	2003-09-05	Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
2	2003-09-09	The Basic Parts of Java
3	2003-09-16	Object-Oriented Programming in Java (Part 1)
4	2003-09-18	Object-Oriented Programming in Java (Part 2)
5	2003-09-26	Inheritance
6	2003-09-30	Polymorphism
7	2003-10-01	Interfaces and Introduction to Inner Classes
8	2003-10-03	Exception Handling
9	2003-10-07	Collections
10	2003-10-14	Input/Output (Streams)
11	2003-10-17	Inner Classes (revisited) + Software Documentation
12	2003-10-21	Software Test
13	2003-10-24	Concurrency
14	2003-10-28	Run-Time Type Identification
15	2003-11-04	The Assert Mechanism and Design by Contract

The schedule may be subject to minor changes.

Teaching Material

In the course we use the book by Bruce Eckel called "Thinking in Java", Prentice Hall 3^rd ed., ISBN 0-13-027363-5, December 2002. It is available from the Centerboghandel. The book's home page (including Errata).

Additional material may be provided for the advanced topics.

Software

In the course we will be using the following software

Java Standard Edition (J2SE) version 1.4.2. (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html). It is a good idea also to download and install the documentation.
BlueJ version 1.3.0 (http://www.bluej.org)
Eclipse version 1.2.2 ( http://www.eclipse.org)

The software is installed on the Solaris/Linux network. You must install the software yourself on the pcs. It is a good idea to start out using the BlueJ programming tool and then perhaps later in the project switch over and use the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The Eclipse IDE is must more advanced and complicated to learn then the very simple BlueJ programming tool.

Persistent Data

One of the focus areas for your projects can be storing data persistently. Here two overall approaches can be taken

Use the Serializable interface.
Use a database backend.

If you want to use a database backend I will recommend that you use the MySQL database. It is very simple and is already installed on the CS network. Various useful links related to MySQL.

The CS Network on how to get access to a MySQL database
A Gentle Introduction to SQL (An introduction to database query language SQL that is a standard language and used by most databases)
Introduction to JDBC (To connect a Java program to a database the standard java.sql.* library is used. This is commonly referred to a JDBC. This link gives an introduction to the JDBC technology.

Exams

MIP (in Danish)

Requirements for the oral exam for the additional study activities (fri studieaktivitet) will be announced later.

Teachers

Kristian Torp, torp@cs.auc.dk