Course Practical Informatics 1

Course

Meets requirements of following modules(MID)

• in active programs
  • Ba TIN2012 PI1
  • Ba ET2012 PI1
  • Ba TIN2010 PI1
  • Ba ET2010 PI1

Course Organization

Instruction language

• Deutsch

Study Level

• Undergraduate

Prerequisites

• none

Textbooks, Recommended Reading

• siehe http://www.nt.fh-koeln.de/vogt/dv/dv_lit.pdf

Instructors

• Prof.Dr. Vogt
• Prof. Dr. Rosenthal
• Prof. Dr. Büchel

Supporting Scientific Staff

• Dipl.-Ing. Henk

Transcipt Entry

Assessment

Course components

Lecture/Exercise

Objectives

Contents

• algorithms
  • characteristics of algorithms
  • description of algorithms
• digital computers
  • bits/bytes
  • structure of the hard- and software architecture
• basic concepts of programming
  • higher programming languages vs. machine languages
  • compilation vs. interpretation
  • procedural vs. object-oriented languages: C vs. Java
• basic concepts of variables
• scalar data types in Java (and C)
  • numbers
    • value ranges
    • representation of constants
    • operations
  • characters
    • coding standards: ASCII, Unicode
    • operations
  • character strings
  • boolean values
    • representation of constants
    • operations
• control structures in Java (und C)
  • abstract representation
    • Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams
    • flow chart
  • blocks
  • branches
    • if
    • if-else
    • switch-case
  • loops
    • pre-test loops
      • for
      • while
    • post-test loops: do-while
• static methods in Java
  • method definition
    • header with parameters and return type
    • body with return statement
  • method call
    • parameter passing: call by value vs. call by reference
  • overloading
  • storage classes
• arrays in Java
  • storage organisation: references
  • indexing and loops
  • multi-dimensional arrays
• objects and classes in Java
  • object-oriented programming: motivation and fundamental concepts
    • encapsulation
    • objects with members and methods
    • classes
  • constructors
  • access control
  • class members and methods

Acquired Skills

• writing algorithms to solve given problems
• programming with elementary operations in a higher programming language
• programming with control structures
• programming with methods
• programming with structured data, esp. arrays
• programming with fundemental concepts of object-oriented programming (classes and objects)

Additional Component Assessment

• none

Lab

Objectives

Contents

• programming elementary operations on scalar variables
• programming with control structures (including the design of Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams or flow charts)
• programming with methods
• programming with structured data, esp. arrays

Acquired Skills

• working with a software development environment
• finding and correcting errors in programs
• designing algorithms and implementing them in a higher language

Operational Competences

• application of the aspects listed above to real-world scenarios in small teams

Additional Component Assessment

• none