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Competences

• Knowledge of imperative programming basic concepts from an object oriented point of view (PO a,k).
• Basic knowledge of the syntax of an object oriented programming language (PO k).
• Ability to break down a real problem by following an object oriented methodology, in order to code it into a computer program (PO a,c,e,k).
• Knowledge of simple structures for information management (PO a).
• Ability to understand technical documents and to reuse third parties programming code (PO a,k).
• Basic knowledge of computational complexity (PO a,k).
• Ability to self organize and individual work and learning process planning (PO k).
• Ability to work in groups (PO d).
• Oral and writing skills (PO g).
• Analysis and synthesis abilities (PO a).
• Ability to decide among alternatives (PO e).
• Motivation for quality (PO k).

Study Program

1. Introduction
1. Components of a program: data and algorithms
2. Brief introduction to the history of programming: from binary code to component oriented programming
3. Compilation vs. Interpretation
4. Programming paradigms: imperative, logical and functional programming
5. Introduction to Java
2. Data and operators
1. Basic data types
2. Variables and constants
3. Operators
4. Comments
5. Arrays
6. Creation of new data types: enumerates and objects
3. Flow control: conditionals and loops
4. Utility classes: Scanner, String and Math
5. Code reuse: methods
6. Objects and methods
7. Algorithms
1. Introduction to computational complexity
2. Search (lineal and binary)
3. Insertion
4. Sorting (bubble sort, insertion sort, selection sort)

Group

Bachelor's Degree: Computer Science and Engineering (Plan 2008) Field: Engineering (Colmenarejo) Field: Engineering (Leganés)

Bachelor's Degree: Computer Science and Engineering (Plan 2011) Field: Engineering (Colmenarejo) Field: Engineering (Leganés)

Bibliography

• BRUCE ECKEL. "Piensa en Java / Thinking in Java". Pearson Educación. Versión española: 2002 - 2ª Edición. Versión inglesa: 2007 - 4ª Edición.
• David Camacho, José Mª Valls, Jesús García, José M. Molina, Enrique Bueno. Programación, algoritmos y ejercicios resueltos en Java. Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2003..
• FRANCISCO DURAN, FRANCISCO GUTIERREZ, ERNESTO PIMENTEL. "Programación orientada a objetos con Java". Thomson, 2007.
• RUSSEL WINDER & GRAHAM ROBERTS. "Developing Java software". Wiley. 2006 - 3º Edición.