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Introduction to Programming

News

• 7/10/2007: The results of the exam of 25/09/2007 (for Computer Science students) are available.
  NP = not passed; blank lines refer to students that did not take the written or the lab exam.

Course presentation form

Objectives. The objective of the Introduction to Programming course is to teach the fundamental principles of programming, making use of the typical aspects of the object-oriented, functional, and imperative programming paradigms. Such basic principles are presented by referring to the Java programming language.

Prerequisites. There are no specific prerequisites. Basic notions of mathematics and set theory will be used.

Teaching material.

[1] Lecture Notes for Introduction to Programming. Diego Calvanese. Available on the course web page.
[2] Absolute Java. Walter Savitch. Addison Wesley. 2nd edition 2005.

• Office hours

• Lectures: Monday and Wednesday, 8:30-10:30, Lecture Room 3.6, 3rd floor, Ser C
  See RIS calendar for changes.
  The course is taught in the 1st semester: from October 4th, 2006 to January 17th, 2007.

• Labs:
  • Tuesday: 16:00-18:00, Computer Room E431, 4th floor (Christian Mair - Italian - Computer Science and Production Engineering)
  • Wednesday: 14:00-16:00, Computer Room E431, 4th floor, Building E (Davide Martinenghi - English - Computer Science)
  • Friday: 16:00-18:00, Computer Room E431, 4th floor, Building E (Christian Mair - German - Computer Science)
  Lab instructors:
  • Christian Mair (office hours: consult the home page)
  • Davide Martinenghi (office hours: consult the home page)

• Additional teaching material
  • Lecture notes (online and in pdf)
  • Esercises assigned in class
  • Java docs online documentation with Java 2 Platform API Specification
  • Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0: compiler, interpreter, and documentation to download
  • BlueJ programming environment: BlueJ homepage, reference manual, tutorial;

• Exams
  • course syllabus:
    • for computer science students
    • for production engineering students
  • exam rules
  • examples of exams (with solutions)

Exam according to the Old Study Plan (6 CFU)

• The reduced syllabus covers points 1 to 10 (leave out 11 and 12) from the syllabus for the 8 CFU exam.
• The reduced syllabus is covered by lectures 1 to 39.
• The difficulty of the exam is between the one for Production Engineering students and the 8 CFU exam for Computer Science students:
  • Here are examples of exam exercises for Production Engineering students.
  • In addition to being able to solve the above exam exercises, students will have to be able to deal with exceptions, as specified in the exam exercises for the 8 CFU exam.
• Please consider the exam rules, and specifically the information about the lab exam.
• Here are examples of exam exercises for the lab exam.