This course makes you able to implement a given requirement specification in flexible and easily understood code. To reach this goal, the course covers fundamental concepts of object-oriented analysis, design and architecture, such as low coupling, high cohesion, encapsulation and polymorphism. The course also gives hands-on experience in using these concepts to design and implement an object-oriented program.

1. Scheduled Activities

There are three kinds of activities, lectures, tutorials and seminars.

Lecture content, lecture notes and reading instructions are presented on the page Literature and Lecture Notes.
There are a number of tutorials, where you can ask questions regarding assignments. These sessions are not mandatory, and no new material is presented.
The assignments are presented at seminars. More information on assignments and seminars is found on the page Seminar Tasks.

2. Text Book and Tutorials

Text book, tutorials and lecture notes are found on the page Literature and Lecture Notes.

3. UML Editors and Programming IDEs

Recommended UML Editors and Programming IDEs are listed on the page Programs.

4. Examination

The examination consists of

Seminars (LAB1; 4.5 hp)
Written exam (TEN1; 3 hp)

4.1. Seminars, LAB1, 4.5hp

The LAB1 sub course consists of the development of one single object-oriented program, which is reported at five different seminars. The first four seminars concern different activities of object-oriented development. Each of these seminars give 0-2 points, where zero means fail, one means pass and two means pass with distinction. The fifth seminar is an opportunity to re-submit seminars you did not pass or to improve your score for one or more seminars. To pass the LAB1 sub course you must pass (one or two points) all seminars. The LAB1 grade will be as follows.

8 points, latest at seminar 5, gives grade A
7 points, latest at seminar 5, gives grade B
6 points, latest at seminar 5, gives grade C
5 points, latest at seminar 5, gives grade D
4 points gives grade E

More information on seminars and grading is found on the page Seminar Tasks. For information on which seminar session to attend see the Seminar Schedule.

4.2. TEN1; 3 hp

The written exam is “closed book”, you are not allowed to bring any material. The only exceptions are dictionaries. You must always motivate your answer. Answers without motivation will in general not be considered. This is really important, you will not get any points just for saying that something has low coupling, high cohesion or some other desired feature. You must specify why that is the case. Grading criteria and possible exam questions are found on the page Written Exam.

4.3 Grading

Both the LAB1 and TEN1 sub courses are graded A-F. The final grade is (4.5 * LAB1 grade + 3 * TEN 1 grade) / 7.5, where the LAB1 and TEN1 grades are translated to numbers from 1 (E) to 5 (A).

5. Disability

Support via Funka

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7. Teachers