Content of Learning Activity

Java language ; object oriented programming ;
class ; instance ; object ; interface ;
method ; field/variable ;
encapsulation ; inheritance ; polymorphism ; composition ; overloading ;
early/late binding ; design patterns (iterator, visitor, factory, ...) ;
error handling ; exception ;
file access (stream and random) ;
collections (lists, maps, sets) ;
garbage collector (mark-sweep, ref. counting, generational) ;
amortized complexity

Required Learning Resources/Tools

Brief Java: Early Objects, 9th edition, Cay Horstmann, Wiley, 2020
(earlier versions entitled ‘Java Concepts’ by the same author are also appropriate)

Recommended Learning Resources/Tools

Not applicable

Other Recommended Reading

- Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management, R. Jones, R. Lins, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996, ISBN 0-471-94148-4.
- Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach, R. Sedgewick, K. Wayne, Addison-Wesley, 2007, ISBN 0-321-49805-4.
- Introduction to Algorithms (3rd edition), Th. H. Cormen et al, 2009, MIT Press.

Mode of delivery

• Face-to-face

Type of Teaching Activity/Activities

• Cours magistraux
• Travaux pratiques

Evaluations

The assessment methods of the Learning Activity (AA) are specified in the course description of the corresponding Educational Component (UE)