The course is compulsory course on the Basic Studies of Computer Science, and is worth 5 cr. The course will teach the basic principles of programming, using Java as the programming language. Usually, students immediately follow up this course with the Advanced Course in Programming, 4 cr.
The homepage of the course is http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/Ohjelmointi/Perusteet/syksy09/.
The Lectures: The lectures are only in Finnish! The first lecture is on Monday September 7th in B123. After that the lectures are on Mondays 12-14 and Thursdays 14-17 at the Auditorium A111 of the Exactum. If you wish to learn to listen Finnish language, you are of course welcome to the lectures! ;-)
Foreign students may read the book Cay Horstmann Gary Cornell: Core Java 2TM, Volume I--Fundamentals, 7/E, Prentice Hall 2004. (In the authors' page there is more info of the book.) There is a reading list in page http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/Ohjelmointi/Perusteet/syksy09/Exercises/.
A weekly teaching group for foreign students will meet every Friday September 4 - October 16, at 08:15 - 09:45, in room C220. The teacher is Henning Lübbers.
The teaching sessions will solve problems that can be found in page http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/Ohjelmointi/Perusteet/syksy09/Exercises/.
The examination is on Wednesday, October 21 at 9:00-12 in A111.
The maximum points in the examination are 50. You must get at least 25 examination points to pass the course!
Grades for foreign students are determined as follows: Your examination points are multiplied by 6/5 and then the resulting points give:
Points: 30 35 40 45 50 Grade: 1 2 3 4 5