Programming in Java Language

Previous year: winter semester 2023 / 2024

Information

• students subscribed for the course are automatically added to the Teams team
• all the course materials will be available in the team
  • slides, examples,…

Practicals/Labs

• Practicals are in the Unix computer lab
• Sign yourself to a practical using the information system
  • who is not signed to a practical within first three weeks of the semester will not receive “zápočet”
• Information for those who repeats the course or does not want to attend the practicals
  • if you repeat the course and you have fulfilled some requirements of the course and you do not want to attend the practicals, then sign yourself to the special “virtual” practical
    • if you repeat the course but you want to attend a “regular” practical, of course you can
  • the requirements you fulfilled previous year can be accepted (but only in the scope of a single study)
    • explicitly write about it to the teacher of the particular practical
    • if you did not write the home project program, the topic is not automatically accepted
      • but it is not necessary to think out a new one; you can propose the original one
  • if you do not repeat the course but do not want to attend practicals, you can also sign yourself to the “virtual” practical
  • for the “virtual” practical, there are the same requirements and deadline as for the “regular” ones
  • “recipe” for the “virtual” practical
    • sign yourself to the “virtual” practical
    • write an email to the teacher of the “virtual” practical (Petr Hnetynka)
      • if you repeat the course, write about already fulfilled requirements
      • if you do not repeat the course, propose a topic of the home project program
    • work on homeworks

Exam and “zápočet”

• Exam is a written test
• To obtain “zápočet” it is necessary to create home project program and successfully pass the practical programming test
• During the semester, there will be multiple homeworks
  • The homeworks will follow each other
  • The homeworks completion is optional
  • The homeworks will be submitted via ReCodEx
  • If you complete the homeworks to 90%, you will have an extra point for the exam
• Topics for the home program project has to be agreed till 10^th January 2025
  • the topic is agreed with the teacher of the particular practical you are assigned to.
  • without properly agreed topic you will not obtain “započet”
• Submitting the home program project
  • till the end of February; the latest deadline is 23^th May 2025 12:00 (noon)
    • THIS IS FINAL DEADLINE AND WILL NOT BE EXTENDED!!!
  • the project is submitted by email; only if it is necessary the project is shown personally.
  • the minimal expected size is around 40 kB of code (including javadoc comments)
  • the project is submitted as a zip archive, which contains:
    • sources (at least 40 kB as mentioned above),
    • several unit-tests,
    • pom.xml file for Maven
      • Ant or Gradle can be used too
    • user documentation (as a plain-text or html or pdf) so the project can be launched and tested,
    • developer documentation as javadoc (all methods commented, commented packages and modules, basic info on the overview page)
    • explicitly specified version of Java in pom.xml (or in a corresponding file for the used build tool)
• Dates for exams and practical tests will be posted in SIS
• Information about exam
  • duration 45 minut
  • written
  • no need to have “započet” in advance
  • no resources allowed (books, notes, slides,…)
    • (only a pen and your head are allowed :-)
  • there will be also one exam during summer exam period
• Information about practical tests
  • duration 3 hours
  • in the Unix lab
  • you can use any printed resources (books, notes,…)
    • all electronic resources and network communication is forbidden (the exceptions are API documentation (without tutorials) and the course website, i.e. slides and examples)
  • there will be also a test during the summer exam period

Slides and examples shown during lectures and practicals

• available in the Teams team

Links

• Java homepage
• Java Language and Virtual Machine Specification
• IntelliJ IDEA
• Netbeans
• Eclipse