Course syllabus for Introduction to object oriented programming

The student should be able to complete programming tasks on a fairly basic level. This means the student should be able to explain and use:

• A modern development environment (editor, compiler, debugger)
• Data as primitive variables and reference variables/objects.
• Basic algorithms.
• Functional decomposition and testing.
• References: Be able to visualize reference semantics, variables, values, references, and objects.
• Types: primitive and reference types (arrays, class, and interface types), implicit and explicit type conversions, enumeration types, wrapper types and boxing. Super and sub types.
• Standard libraries for classes/objects and collections.
• Own classes and implementations and interface inheritance.
• Polymorphism
• An object oriented model of some problem domain.

• In and output using streams
• Literals, types, variables, declarations, initialization, operators, expressions and statements, casts, scope
• Control statements: if, while, for, break, switch.
• One and two dimensional arrays
• Methods, parameters, return types, method calls, local variables, overloaded and overridden methods.
• Primitive types vs reference types, value and reference semantics. Equality.
• Classes, objects, interfaces, constructors and access. Inteface and implementation inheritance.
• Graphical and event driven programs (JavaFX)
• Exceptions and exception handling
• Overview of file handling
• Overview of generic classes and methods.
• Texthandling, strings (String, StringBuilder, Character).
• Java Collections
• Instance and class variables/methods.