Introduction to Programming

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Bertrand Meyer, Wintersemester 2005/2006

General info

News

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 Reading material

This week

Slides for lecture 14

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 5.6 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

  Slides and lecture videos

Week	Date	Topic	Slides (EN)	Video (mpeg4)
Week 1	Tue, 2005-10-25	Introduction
Week 2	Mon, 2005-10-31	Dealing with objects
	Tu, 2005-11-01	Eiffel, Objects and programs
Week 3	Mo, 2005-11-07	The Interface of a Class
	Tu, 2005-11-08	Just enough Logic
Week 4	Tu, 2005-11-15	Invariants and object creation
Week 5	Mo, 2005-11-21	References, assignment, and the object structure
	Tu, 2005-11-22	Control Structures
Week 6	Mo, 2005-11-28	Control Structures (continued)
	Tu, 2005-11-29	Control Structures (end; see slides from Monday)
Week 7	Mo, 2005-12-05	Abstraction
		The Dynamic Model
	Tu, 2005-12-06	Describing the Syntax
Week 8	Mo, 2005-12-12	Inheritance and Genericity
	Tu, 2005-12-13	Inheritance and Genericity
Week 9	Mo, 2005-12-19	More about inheritance; Project assignment
	Tu, 2005-12-20	EiffelMedia presentation
Week 10	Mo, 2006-01-09	Introduction to recursion
	Tu, 2006-01-10	Introduction to recursion
Week 11	Mo, 2006-01-16	Container data structures
	Tu, 2006-01-17	Event-driven programming with agents
Week 12	Mo, 2006-01-23	An example: undo/redo
	Tu, 2006-01-24	Topological sort - background
Week 13	Mo, 2006-01-30	Topological sort - algorithm
	Tu, 2006-01-31	From programming to software engineering

 Slides and lecture videos from last year (WS05/06)

Week	Date	Topic	Slides (EN)	Slides (DE)	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
	Tue, 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

Exercises

Lab session

 Exercise groups

Assistants

 Exercise sheets

Week	Topic	Links	Master solution
Week 1	Introduction (E-Mail, Internet, Forum)	Exercise sheet	Solution
Week 2	Taking off	Exercise sheet	Solution
Week 3	Of objects and features	Exercise sheet	Solution
Week 4	Object creation	Exercise sheet	Solution
Week 5	Loops	Exercise sheet	Solution
Week 6	Smarties	Exercise sheet	Solution
Week 7	Classroom Exercise 1	Übungsblatt	Solution
Week 8	Inheritance	Exercise sheet	Solution
Week 9	Final project	Exercise sheet
Week 10	Classroom Exercise 2	Übungsblatt	Solution

Last modified on 24.01.2006