Laborations & Lecturenotes

Note: There are some Swedish in some of the labs.
"om du hinner med, inte obligatoriskt" = "if you have the time, not mandatory"

Week 3

Lecture 1+2 (pdf, 830 kB)
(Audio commentary pending)
The basics of computer software and programming.
You assignment:
In the laboratories indicated in the schedule the software needed are pre installed. Start by opening the Greenfoot environment and perform exercise 1+2. Exercise 3 is performed using paper and pen.

Exercise 1 (pdf, 670 kB)
Exercise 2, (pdf, 830 kB)
Exercise 3 (word, 27 kB)

If you find Greenfoot interesting there is a book on the subject: http://www.greenfoot.org/

The exercises should be shown to the lab assistant during week 5.

Week 4

Lecture 3 (pdf, 790 kB)
Chapter 1 and 2 in the book, which covers:

• Objects
• Classes
• Compilation
• Execution
• Variables
• Data types
• Arithmetics

Your assignment:
In the laboratories indicated in the schedule the software needed are pre installed. Start by opening JGrasp - the Java development environment. Use JGrasp to edit, compile and run the programs to solve the assignments described in Exercise 4.

Exercise 4 (pdf, 32 kB)

The exercises should be shown to the lab assistant during week 5.

Week 5

Lecture 4 (pdf, 1 MB)
Chapter 3 in the book, which covers:

• Use of classes and objects
• Java Foundation Classes
• Reference variables
• Interactive programs

Classes you have to understand at this stage: String, Random, Math and Graphics.

Exercise 5 (pdf, 19 kB)

Week 6

Lecture 5 (pdf, 810 kB)
Chapter 5 in the book, which covers:

• if-else
• while
• do-while
• graphical components

Exercise 6 (pdf, 50 kB)

Week 7

Lecture 6 (pdf, 810 kB)
Chapter 4 in the book, which covers:

• instanciation
• constructors
• methods
• graphical components

Exercise 7 (pdf, 37 kB)

Week 8

Lecture 7 (powerpoint, 500 kB)
Chapter 7 in the book, which covers:

• arrays of primary types
• arrays of objects
• argument passing

Classes you have to understand at this stage: ArrayList

Exercise 8 (pdf, 52 kB)

Please note! The following assignments are mandatory:
Tracking Sales
Reversing an Array
Adding To and Removing From an Integer List
A Shopping Cart
The rest of the assignments are optional.

Week 9

Lecture 8 (pdf, 850 kB)
Chapter 6, 8, 9, which covers:

• object oriented design
• class relations
• interfaces
• inheritance
• methods and parameters
• static methods and variables

Project specification

Week 10

Lecture 9
Chapter 10 in the book, which covers:

• try-catch
• exceptions

Written exam preparation