The course is compulsory course on the Basic Studies of Computer Science, and is worth 4 cr. The course is an orientation in the Java programming language. It is not possible to learn the whole language during this course; rather, the focus is on using the basic tools of the language. The API packages will not be thoroughly dealt with, but we will learn the basics of how to use them. The goal is that a student, who has completed the course properly, will be able to use the original documentation of the language actively and independently.
Usually, students take this course immediately after the course Introduction to programming, 5 cr. Actually the course name "Programming in Java" is not very good, because you already have to know Java as much as is taught in the course Introduction to programming!
The homepage of the course is in http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/Ohjelmointi/Java/syksy06/.
The Lectures are held at the auditorium A111 of the Exactum, on October 30 - December 7, Mondays 12-14 and Thursdays 14-16. The lectures are in Finnish!
The course is based on a Finnish textbook Arto Wikla: Ohjelmoinnin perusteet Java-kielellä, OtaDATA 2003. The contents of the course (in Finnish!) may also be found on the Web site http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/Ohjelmointi/Sisalto/ .
Those who are not conversant in Finnish may read the book
Cay Horstmann Gary Cornell: Core JavaTM 2, Volume I--Fundamentals, 7/E,
Prentice Hall 2004.
(In the page of the authors
there is more info.)
Also the old book that was earlier recommended to foreign students of this course, Lewis, Loftus: Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design, Addison Wesley, 1997, may be useful.
The English exercise group will meet once a week November 31 - December 5 as follows:
3. Mika Stenberg TUESDAY 18-20 B119 (in English)
The exercise sessions will deal with homework. The programming problems are to be solved by using the computer. The solutions should be taken to the exercise group printed on paper, and they should also be found in your home directory of the department computer system.
The successful solving of problems in the exercise group will give you points that will influence your final grade. The maximum of points is 7, which you will obtain by completing at least 5/6 of the problems. (The maximum of the examination is 53.)
During the first exercise session the students will be divided to study circles, consisting 3-5 students. The teacher will tell more of this in the first meeting. In the first meeting the teacher will help you to start making the exercises of the second week. Those exercises will deal mostly the material of the course Introduction to programming.
The examination will be held on Monday, December 11 at 16-19. The room will be announcend later.
The maximum amount of points in the examination is 53 (7 in the exercises).
Grades are determined as follows:
Points: 30 35 40 45 50 Grade: 1 2 3 4 5