Study Guide

Objective

After completing the course the student can:
- explain the different phases and main methods of the development of a software product
- explain the concepts class hierarchy, inheritance, and polymorphism, and utilize these in software development
- discuss the possibilities of parallel programming
- apply exception handling mechanisms
- design, implement and document a simple user interface application.

Content

- object-oriented structures
- error handling with exceptions
- threads
- database connection
- software development process and methods
- UML diagrams

Materials

The content covers chapters 1-5 and 11
Python 3 Object Oriented Programming by Dusty Phillips, ISBN-13: 978-1849511261

Teaching methods

Learning by programming

Exam schedules

Assessment is completely based on exercises.
The complete course can be completed with an exam. The date will be agreed upon during the first lesson, but must be within the 1st month (January).
There is no retake for the compensating exam.

Completion alternatives

The complete course can be completed with an exam. The date will be agreed upon during the first lesson, but must be within the 1st month (January).
The exam is an e-exam done in TUAS e-exam room using Ville system.
The compensating exam can only be taken if a student is enrolled to the course.

Student workload

reading the material 10* 3 h = 30 h
doing the network exercises 7 * 5 h = 35 h
doing the programming exercises 10 * 7 h = 70 h

total 135 h student work

Content scheduling

The learning is based on doing
- network exercises
- programming exercises
- to support the learning there are weekly introductory lectures on the topic followed with programming exercises



All the classes are programming labs. A student needs to go through the theory before the labs.

Further information

the course uses itslearning as a learning platform

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment is completely based on exercises. NOTE! exercises returned late are not assessed



- 5 mandatory class programming exercises, assessment pass/fail during the class and returned by the end of the day.
- 5 quiz, each 5 points
- 5 programming labs, each 5 points


if all 5 mandatory class exercises are passed the grade is 1
each 10 points from quizzes and labs add 1 grade
If a student fails a mandatory class exercise, points from quizzes and labs are used to compensate it, 10 points compensates one class exercise.

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

missing mandatory accepted class exercises and not enough points to compensate them

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

all mandatory class exercises done (grade 1) and additional 10 points (grade 2)

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

all mandatory class exercises done (grade 1) and additional 20 points (grade 3) or 30 (grade 4)

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

all mandatory class exercises done (grade 1) and additional 40 points (grade 5)

Qualifications

Introduction to Programming or equivalent programming skills