Introduction to Programming

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Bertrand Meyer, winter semester 2003/2004

The course is over. Enjoy your well-deserved break and good luck for future semesters!

Links to the pages for the new (2004-2005) course session: English; German

General info:	News | Course description | Requirements for Testat | Course book | Help Forum | Office hours | Downloads | Further reading
Lectures:	Schedule | Slides and lecture videos
Exercises:	Schedule | Assistants | Exercise topics

General info

News

Check the German version of this page.

 Course description

Title and ID

Introduction to Programming
ID (Vorlesungsnummer): 37-001

Content

Foundations of object-oriented programming. Objects and classes. Interfaces of a class. Preconditions and postconditions, invariants, Design by Contract. Basic control structures. Assignment and referencing. Basic knowledge about the hardware. Basic data structures and algorithms. Recursion. Inheritance and deferred classes. Introduction to event-driven and concurrent programming. Fundamental concepts of software engineering: software production process, specification, documentation, reuse, quality assurance.

Information sheet (updated 2003-10-24)

 Requirements for Testat

• 6 weekly exercises
• 1 classroom exercise
• 1 project exercise

In order to have an exercise accepted, you must show an effort to solve the tasks. Additionally, a questionnaire about the difficulty level needs to be filled out.

 Course book

Bertrand Meyer: Touch of Class, lecture book (in preparation).

Click here to download the book.

Help Forum

You can use the Help Forum to ask course- and exercise-related questions. The assistants will do their best to answer your questions as soon as possible. Bernd: thank you for setting up the forum!

Click here to access the Help Forum.

Office hours

Friday, 14:00 -16:00, RZ J22

Downloads

EiffelStudio 5.4 Free Edition is available for both Windows and Linux. Click here.

 Further reading

Bertrand Meyer: Object-Oriented Software Construction, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-629155-4.

Pete Thomas, Ray Weedon: Object-Oriented Programming in Eiffel, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley Eiffel in Practice Series, ISBN 0-201-33131-4.

Frieder Monninger: Eiffel. Objektorientiertes Programmieren in der Praxis, H. Heise Verlag, Hannover, ISBN 3-882-29028-5 

Bertrand Meyer: La produzione del software object oriented. Prentice Hall International, Hemel Hempstead, ISBN 88-256-0205-7

Giuseppe Callegarin: Nuovo corso di informatica. Basi di dati e sistemi informativi. Per le Scuole superiori. CEDAM, ISBN 8-813-19565-6

Lectures

Schedule

Slides and lecture videos

Week	Date	Topic	Slides	Video (.rm)
Week 1	Tue, 2003-10-21	Introduction
Week 2	Mon, 2003-10-27	Manipulation of objects (part I)
	Tue, 2003-10-28	Logic
Week 3	Mon, 2003-11-03	Manipulation of objects (part II)
	Tue, 2003-11-04	Interface of a class
Week 4	Mon, 2003-11-10	Creation of objects
	Tue, 2003-11-11	Control structures (part 1)
Week 5	Mon, 2003-11-17	Control structures (part 2)
	Tue, 2003-11-18	Syntax
Week 6	Mon, 2003-11-24	References, assignment, and the object structure
	Tue, 2003-11-25	The dynamic model
Week 7	Mon, 2003-12-01	More on the dynamic model
	Tue, 2003-12-02	Container data structures
Week 8	Mon, 2003-12-08	A simple application
	Tue, 2003-12-09	A glimpse into the hardware
Week 9	Mon, 2003-12-15	Recursion
	Tue, 2003-12-16	Inheritance
Week 10	Mon, 2004-01-05	Inheritance and genericity
	Tue, 2004-01-06	Testing
Week 11	Mon, 2004-01-12	More about inheritance
	Tue, 2004-01-13	Event-driven programming and agents
Week 12	Mon, 2004-01-19	Event-driven programming with agents
	Tue, 2004-01-20	An example: Undo/Redo
Week 13	Mon, 2004-01-26	Topological sort 1: Background
	Tue, 2004-01-27	Topological sort 1: Algorithm
Week 14	Mon, 2004-02-02	From Programming to Software Engineering
	Tue, 2004-02-03	Sneak preview "Algorithms and data structures" (by Prof. Widmayer), selected project presentation (by students)

Exercises

 Schedule

Assistants

Exercise topics

Week	Exercise	Links	Example solution
Week 1	How to use computers at the ETH (E-mail, Internet, printers)	Exercise sheet
Week 2	It's logic!	Exercise sheet Questionnaire Downloads
Week 3	A first program and Contracts	Exercise sheet Questionnaire Downloads
Week 4	Classroom exercise 1	Exercise sheet
Week 5	Control structures	Exercise sheet Questionnaire
Week 6	Syntax	Exercise sheet Questionnaire
Week 7	References and assignment	Exercise sheet Questionnaire Downloads
Week 8	Data structures and programming	Exercise sheet Questionnaire Downloads
Week 9	--- no exercises for Christmas ---
Week 10	Classroom exercise II	Übungsblatt
Projekt	Modelling and implementation of a larger application	Exercise sheet Downloads

Last modified on 2004-02-02