Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Object Oriented Programming

Code

11153

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Department

Departamento de Informática

Credits

9.0

Teacher in charge

Carla Maria Gonçalves Ferreira, Luís Manuel Marques da Costa Caires

Weekly hours

5

Total hours

68

Teaching language

Português

Objectives

Knowledge:

  • Object-­Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts, namely classes, interfaces, polymorphism and inheritance.
  • Techniques and algorithms for processing data structures such as lists, strings, vectors, dictionaries, and sets.
  • Basic mechanisms of generic programming.
  • Class libraries and learn how to reuse them.
  • Basic Software Engineering concepts, from a developer perspetive, such as software quality, reuse, development and maintenance costs, or implementation efficiency.

Application:

  • Design and develop software applications using OOP.
  • Problem solving with OOP.
  • Using verification and validation techniques.
  • Increasingly autonomous software development skills, both in solo and as a team member.

Soft­-Skills:

  • Build up an interest for programming and solving problems.

Subject matter

1. Interface specification and documentation
2. Software design with classes
3. Interface polymorphism
4. Class inheritance
5. Inheritance polymorphism
6. Assertions
7. Unit and regression testing
8. Exception handling
9. Generic programming
10. Usage of collection generic types

Bibliography

  1. Cay Horstmann, Java Concepts, 4th Edition (or subsequent editions), Wiley, 2005, ISBN-10: 0471697044.
  2. Slides for Programação Orientada pelos Objectos (to be made available gradually at the moodle area of this course).
  3. F. Mário Martins, Java 5 e Programação por Objectos, FCA, 2006, ISBN 978-972-722-548-4.

Teaching method

Lectures consist on a theoretical exposition, illustrated by application examples, and supported by slides and the usage of the software development environment of the lecturer.
In the lab sessions, students solve problems by concretely applying the concepts discussed in the previous lectures.
Students may clarify any doubts during classes or in the instructor’s contact hours.

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