Introduction to Programming

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Bertrand Meyer, Wintersemester 2004/2005

General info

News

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Course description

Title and ID

Introduction to Programming
ID (Vorlesungsnummer): 252-0001-00

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.

Course book

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

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.

Downloads

EiffelStudio 5.5 Free Edition is available for both Windows and Linux. Click here.

Traffic Software

The Traffic Software can be downloaded 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 (EN)	Video (mpeg4)
Week 1	Tue, 2004-10-19	Introduction
Week 2	Mon, 2004-10-25	Dealing with objects
	Tue, 2004-10-26	Eiffel, objects and programs
Week 3	Mon, 2004-11-01	The interface of a class
	Tue, 2004-11-02	Logic
Week 4	Mon, 2004-11-08	Object creation
	Tue, 2004-11-09	References, assignment, and the object structure
Week 5	Mon, 2004-11-15	Control structures I
	Di, 2004-11-16	Syntax
Week 6	Mon, 2004-11-22	Control structures II
	Tue, 2004-11-23	Control structures II
Week 7	Mon, 2004-11-29	The dynamic model
	Tue, 2004-11-30	The dynamic model
Week 8	Mon, 2004-12-06	Inheritance
	Tue, 2004-12-07	Inheritance and Genericity
Week 9	Mon, 2004-12-13	Recursion
	Tue, 2004-12-14	Recursion
Week 10	Mon, 2004-12-20	Container data structures
	Tue, 2004-12-21	Introduction to .NET
Week 11	Mon, 2005-01-10	Question time, more about inheritance
	Tue, 2005-01-11	More about inheritance
Week 12	Mon, 2005-01-17	Event-driven programming with agents
	Tue, 2005-01-18	An example: undo/redo
Week 13	Mon, 2005-01-24	Topological sort I: background
	Tue, 2005-01-25	Topological sort II: algorithm
Week 14	Mon, 2005-01-31	From programming to software engineering
	Tue, 2005-02-01	"Object-Oriental Bazaar" and project presentations

Slides and lecture videos from last year (winter semester 2003/2004)

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

Registration

Please register here for the exercises

Lab session

Schedule

Assistants

Exercise topics

Week	Topic	Links	Example solution
Week 1	Introduction to the Infrastructure at ETH	Exercise paper
Week 2	Taking off	Exercise paper
Week 3	Of Objects and Contracts	Exercise paper
Week 4	Object creation	Exercise paper
Week 5	Classroom exercise 1	Exercise paper
Week 6	Loops	Exercise paper
Week 7	"equal"="equal"	Exercise paper
Week 8	More Inheritance	Exercise paper
Week 9	Genericity and Recursion	Exercise paper
Week 10	Final project	Exercise paper
Week 11	Classroom exercise 2	Exercise paper

Last modified on 2005-02-03