02115   Java Programming
Autumn 2011

Course material:

• Textbooks:
  • ''Objects First with Java - A practical Introduction Using BlueJ'' (Fourth Edition), David J. Barnes and Michael Kölling, Pearson Education, 2009, ISBN-10: 0-13-6060862
  • ''Java Precisely'' (Second Edition), Peter Sestoft, The MIT Press 2005, ISBN-10: 0-262-69325-9

• Additional material available from the course   Homepage

Lectures (in English):

Normally, each lecture is given as three 35 minutes periods with a break of 5-10 minutes in between.

There will be nine lectures followed by exercise sessions.
The remaining four Tuesdays are reserved for 4 hours exercise sessions.
A preliminary lecture plan is given at Lecture plan. The detailed plans of the lectures for each week are announced at Weekly Work and Assignments with links to each of the 13 week plans.

The lectures will be theme based leaving to you detailed studies of the textbooks and work at home. A guidance could be read each week on the actual week plan.

Teaching assistant:

• Ville Witt, s050539

Exercise sessions:

On the four Tuesdays with no lectures, the exercise sessions start at 17:00. Those exercise classes are reserved for your work on the Mandatory Assignment which should be made as an individual work - not group work. The final grade given is based on an evaluation of that assignment. Please, refer to Grading criteria.

At the exercise sessions the teacher and the teaching assistant will be present in the databar to help you with the assignments given weekly at Weekly Work and Assignments.

In the assigned G-databars the total number of working places is 48. It's preferable to work alone, but some of you may prefer to work two together, others to work at home.

Study behaviour

The course setup for each week is given on the actual Week plan.
For a week offering both lectures and exercises we expect that you:

• Introduce yourself to the topics of the week by working in advance at home as suggested in the section Preparations for the week on the week plan.
  This prepares you to the lectures and exercises, giving you an impression of what's easy, important, or difficult.

• Join the lectures, and hopefully have things presented in another way.
  Asking questions and open a little dialogue on specific problems may be a possibility.

• Practice Java by joining the exercise classes.
  Present your Java programs to the computer, and ask the teaching assistants for help with the harder problems. Having done your preparations at home you know what you found difficult to tackle.

• After the Tuesday evening take your time to put the records straight.
  On some of the week plans hints and advises are given in the section After the lectures.
  Reflect on things, and maybe spent time on solving difficulties not yet worked through or finish things which at first was not carried through in all details. Also make yourself clear what you have learned by your engagement to the topics of the week. And finally step to the next week.

Contact Information

Jens Thyge Kristensen,
DTU Informatics
Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling,
Richard Petersens Plads,
DTU - Building 322,
Room 017.
Phone: 452 53711.