Learning Objectives:

• Understand how to study and succeed in EPL133.
• Master the tools used to find information about lecture and lab plans, reading material, learning objectives, notes, assignments, etc.: Web site, Moodle, Course schedule
• Join and become familiar with the EPL133 Page on Moodle and learn how to use it to ask questions, contribute with answers and communicate with the lecturer and teaching assistants.
• Become familiar with the EPL133 contract.
• Refresh Java Programming and execution skills.
• Understand and explain the concept of class.

Learning Objectives:

• Review the process of compiling and executing Java programs using the command line.
• Organise your directory structure for EPL133.
• Review the use of Eclipse.

Learning Objectives:

• Help students get to know each other and work on common projects.
• Experiment with the tools for synchronous, online teaching and class etiquette: Zoom and cameras, Zoom background, Teams.
• Understand how to adopt an object-oriented approach when coding simple Java programs.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand computational thinking and be able to model and solve problems computationally.
• Understand the concepts of problem formulation, problem solving, and state representation in solving computational problems.
• Understand the concept of well-defined problems and apply it to translate abstract problem descriptions to computational problems.

Learning Objectives:

• Design and implement a Rational class.
• Design and implement a Rectangle class.

Learning Objectives: Understand and be able to explain and use:

• Key programming terminology: compilation, interpretation, debugging, virtual machine, source code, object code, assembly language, intermediate languages.
• Basic concepts of object-oriented programming.
• The history of Object-oriented Programming.
• The main aspects of the Java programming language.
• The Java platform.
• Interpretation vs. Compilation of computer programs.
• Τhe Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Bytecodes.
• The concept of Multi-threading.
• The lifecycle of a Java program.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand and properly apply Java coding standards and Javadoc style comments.
• Understand how to access and use online Java documentation.
• Design and implement a QuadraticEquation class
• Design and Implement a Linear Equation System class

Learning Objectives:

• Refresh your knowledge of Java programming and recursion, and explore the concepts of class design, object state and performance through the example of a Fibonacci implementation in Java.
• Practice with the concepts of compilation, interpretation, the role of JVM, and bytecodes.

Learning Objectives: Understand, identify and be able to employ key concepts of abstraction, such as hierarchy and data abstraction. Understand how abstraction is used to manage complexity. Understand the concepts of objects and classes. Understand the notions of object properties (fields), object behaviors (methods), object id (handle).

Learning Objectives: Explore the use of abstraction in problem solving.

• Design and implement a RegularPolygon class
• Design and implement a StatisticClaculation class

Learning Objectives: Explore examples of class definition in Java.

• Design a class representing a circle.
• The green mice. Create "mice" in different ways and make them "evolve" over time.
• Design a class representing a triangle.

Learning Objectives: Review the design of Java classes using information hiding and encapsulation.

Learning objectives: Explore the memory allocation and garbage collection mechanisms of Java programs.

• Using th VisualVM tool.
• String Pool in Java
• Calculating the size of objects in memory
• Understanding static and dynamic string concatenation in Java.
• Garbage collector in use
• Static Initialization Block

Learning Objectives: Explore the JUnit testing platform.

• Creating JUnit tests in Eclipse
• Writing tests
• Running your tests cases

Learning Objectives:

• Review key elements of the object-oriented design.
• Become familiar and put to practice the O.O. design methodology.
• Use the Class-Responsibility-Collaborators (CRC) cards to design your classes.

Learning Objectives Learning Objectives: Explore the memory allocation and garbage collection mechanisms of Java programs.

• Understanding static and dynamic string concatenation in Java.
• Garbage collector in use.
• Static Initialization Block.

Learning Objectives:

• Review key elements of class design using CRC cards.
• Apply the Class-Responsibility-Collaborators (CRC) card methodology to design the classes for Tik-tak-toe.
• Identify invariants for your Tik-tak-toe design.

Learning Objectives: Introducing inheritance in Java.

• How super(), this() works.
• The equals() method and inheritance.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand and apply inheritance mechanisms.
• Understand, explain and apply method overriding.

Learning outcome: Review of example with CRCs.

Learning outcome: Solve different problems using inheritance in Java.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand and explain how object construction works in the case of inherited classes.
• Be familiar with Final classes and final class members.
• Understand and explain the differences of access specifiers: private, protected, public.
• Understand, recognize and apply of upcasting and its implications.
• Review of examples with inheritance and upcasting. The "Object" class.

Learning outcome: Solve different problems using inheritance in Java.

Learning objectives: Understand, recognize and apply of upcasting and its implications. Review of examples with inheritance and upcasting. The "Object" class.

Learning Objectives:

• Polymorphic behavior via method overriding.

Learning outcome: Review of examples with inheritance. Understand the concept of Software patterns. Recognize and apply Code re-use through composition and delegation as an alternative to inheritance.

Learning Objectives:

• Polymorphic behavior via abstract classes.
• Polymorphic copy.
• Liskov Substitution Principle.

Learning outcome:

• Polymorphic behavior via abstract classes.

Learning outcome: Understand and explain binding of static methods. Explore examples of polymorphism, hiding vs. overriding.

Learning outcome: Using interfaces in Java.

• Interfaces and inheritance.
• Modelising geometric shapes using interfaces.
• Example using Comparable interface.

Learning objectives:

• Understand and apply multiple inheritance through Interfaces.
• Understand uses of Serializable and Clonable interface.
• Understand the impact of conflicts in interface inheritance.
• Default methods.

Learning outcome: Using interfaces in Java.

• More exercises on interfaces in Java.
• Modelising shapes using interfaces - continued

Learning outcome:

• Exercises on Inner Classes.
• The Liskov Substitution Principle.
• The Interface Segregation Principle.

Learning outcome: Using exceptions, make your own exception classes.

Learning outcome: Using streams in Java. Byte Streams, Character Streams.

Learning outcome: Implement generic classes in Java.

Learning outcome: Using collections in Java.

• Using HashMaps.
• Using HashSets.