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Application Programming (5 cr)

Code: 5000BL73-3001

General information


Enrollment

12.06.2020 - 09.09.2020

Timing

31.08.2020 - 18.12.2020

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Engineering and Business

Campus

Kupittaa Campus

Teaching languages

  • English

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Information and Communications Technology

Teachers

  • Balsam Abdulghani

Groups

  • PINFOS19

Objective

After completing the course the student can:
* program efficiently in a team
* reuse code and utilize libraries
* understand and apply some design patterns
* use an IDE as a programming tool
* use a version control system

Content

* relevant programming libraries
* learning some common design patterns
* using IDE in programming
* using a version control system in application development
* project work: implementing an application in a team

Materials

Python API Development Fundamentals
by Jack Chan, Ray Chung, Jack Huang
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Release Date: November 2019
ISBN: 9781838983994

Please note that because of the bankruptcy of DawsonEra we might have some delay in getting the ebook.

Exam schedules

There is no exams on this course.

International connections

The course will be arranged totally online.

There will be an itsLearning environment for the course. Teams will be used during online lessons.

A Virtual Box virtual image will be shared with students by using the Funet filesender. The students must install Virtual Box and the image on their own computers.

Student workload

Total work 135 hours

Online lessons 25 hours

Personal assignments 56 hours

The group work 54 hours

Content scheduling

Contents:

During the course a web service will be created by using Python language and Flask application programming framework. Professional tools like PyCharm, Git and Postman will be used. The RESTful protocol will be applied. The web service will ulilize SQL Alchemy toolkit and PostgreSQL database.

The students will elaborate more deeply in the web service they will create in the group project work.

Online lessons: Theory, programming together, demos and supporting working in teams. Theory and programming lessons are arranged mostly before the autumn vacation (on week 42), after that the lessons concentrate more on supporting team work.

Personal assignments:
1-2 theoretical assignments
5 practical assignments

A group project work

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Personal assignments:

1-2 theoretical assignments: 15 points
5 practical assignments: 50 points

The group project work: 35 points.

The assignments must be returned by the deadline to get the points.The assignments returned after the deadline won't give any points.

The student must get at least 25 points from the assignments and 15 points from the group work to pass the course.

The grading scale (points b -> grade):

40 points -> 1
55 points -> 2
70 points -> 3
80 points -> 4
90 points -> 5