Course content

A core element of this course is to undertake a medium-scale programming project in a team of 4 to 7 students. The main aim is to give the students an understanding of the relations between the product-oriented and the process-oriented issues and work tasks in a programming project. Important aspects of this are knowledge of methods and theories of how to organize a programming project in a group (see for example CVS for configuration management, JavaDoc for documentation, Java Swing for graphical user interface). Students will have to work and reflect about integration of different components (like for example code development environment Eclipse and MySQL database) to ensemble a larger software product. Summing up, the aim of this course is to improve students’ practical skills in team work as well as programming in Java.

Learning outcome

1) Programming skills. The students will enhance their programming skills through developing a specified software product. Especially, students are trained in using existing GUI components and libraries such as Java SWING, MySQL, and JavaDoc.
2) Cooperation. The students will learn how to cooperate and work in teams.
3) Reflection and learning from own work. The students will learn to reflect upon both technical and organizational aspects of conducting a programming project.

Learning methods and activities

Methods of learning:
1) team work and reflection
2) Lectures and presentations by groups.

Activities:
a) Teamwork and project management
b) Software design
c) Pair-programming, testing, documentation.

Recommended previous knowledge

Programmering GK IT1103 and
Object-oriented programming TDT4100

Required previous knowledge

None.

Course materials

Will be announced at semester start.

Credit reductions