Study Guide

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

Personal assignments:

7 personal assignments: 70 points
The group project work: 30 points.

The assignments must be returned by the deadline to get the points.The assignments returned after the deadline will give you only half of the points.

The student must get at least 30 points from the assignments and 10 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

International connections

The course will be arranged mostly onsite at the ICT building.

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

The students must install Virtual Box and the image on their own computers.

Completion alternatives

Python Crash Course
2nd Edition
A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming
Eric Matthes
May 3, 2019
ISBN-10 : 1593279280
ISBN-13 : 978-1593279288

The reading are will be concentrated mostly on chapters 9 and 18 - 20.

Please note that there is a limited number of books available in eBook Central for you to read.

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 site will be created by using Python language and Django web application programming framework. Professional tools like Git will be used. The site will follow a version of the MVC architectural pattern.

The students will elaborate more deeply in creating a web site during 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:
7 assignments
A group project work

Evaluation scale

H-5