Intro to IMP-35 course
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This document outlines the requirements and expectations for passing the IMP-35 Programming course. It details that students must complete at least 30% of home exercises, which can earn extra points on exams. There are three exams or an optional final exam, which are open book and involve programming questions. An independent or group project is also required, such as developing a Tic-Tac-Toe game. The final grade is an average of exam scores and the project grade. Key deadlines are provided. Students are expected to dedicate around 16 hours per week to the coursework outside of lectures.
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Intro to IMP-35 course
- 1. IMP-35 Programming Jussi Pohjolainen Tampere University of Applied Sciences
- 2. Lecturer Jussi Pohjolainen Office: B3-08 Contact via e-mail or Ning forum When contacting by e-mail, use title: TAMK IMP-35 insert-your-title-here Example TAMK IMP-35 Problem with home exercises!
- 3. How to Pass the Course? Exercises Three exams or one final exam Project work
- 4. 1. Exercises Home exercises are available in Ning – environment How to return exercises? Upload to DropBox Mark the exercises to EditGrid sheet Attend to lectures and be ready to present your exercises to other students You have to do at least 30% of given home exercises! If you do more than mandatory amount of the exercises you get extra points to exams.
- 5. Home Exercises » Extra Points? Percent Points [ 0%, 30%[ Fail [30%, 50%[ 0 points [50%, 70%[ 1 point [70%, 90%[ 2 points [90%, 100%] 3 points
- 6. 2. Exams Three exams Pen and Paper Open Books : Bring any paper material with you! Programming questions: What is the output of given program? Write a simple/short program 24 points max, 10 points to pass Final exam grade is an average of the three exams. If you fail on one exam, you can replace all three exams by participating on the final exam.
- 7. 3. Project Work Project work is done independently or in groups of 2. Project work: Tic-tac-toe with graphical user interface
- 8. 3. Project Work: Goal 1 Goal 1: Grade 1 Two human players Graphical user interface Game is localized in English User(s) (X and 0) are able to see the board and make moves Game gives an alert when either X or 0 wins. Game gives turns to X and 0 users Game gives error messages when user tries to make illegal move
- 9. 3. Project Work: Goal 2 Goal 2: Grade 2-3 Game has the option to save and open it's state. State is saved into an ASCII-file. When game is finished, user has the option to view statistics: Winner How many X's are in the game board How many 0's are in the game board How much time did it take to finish the game (h:m:s) Average time that the X took to think his/her moves Average time that the 0 took to think his/her moves
- 10. 3. Project Work: Goal 3 Goal 2: Grade 4-5 Ability to play against the computer (intelligent moves) Ability to configure the game boad size If you would like to implement a project work with your own subject, please inform the teacher.
- 11. Grading Grading is calculated as an average of exams and the project work Example Exam 1: 12 points + 3 extra points = 15 points => 2 Exam 2: 15 points + 1 extra points = 16 points => 3 Exam 3: 18 points + 2 extra points = 20 points => 4 Exam average: (2+3+4) / 3 = 3 Project Work Grade: 5 Final grade: (3 + 5) / 2 = 4
- 12. Deadlines Deadline Home exercises Every Tuesday Exam 1 Tue 2009-11-10 Exam 2 Tue 2009-11-24 Exam 3 Tue 2009-12-02 Final Exam (optional) Wed 2009-12-09 Project Work Mon 2010-01-11
- 13. Work Amount IMP-35 Programming 10 ECTS Credits 1 ECTS = 27 h 10 ECTS = 270 h Lectures: 77 hours Exercises and Project Work: 193 hours! Course lasts 12 weeks. You should do about 16 hours of work each week addition to the lectures!
- 14. 10 ECTS is a LOT of Work!
- 15. Material All the material can be found from Ning environment Slideshare (slides) DropBox (examples) Book: Java Gently
- 16. Hints and Tips for Passing Study, study and study! Reading a day before to the exam is useless... You have to study each week. Learning to program requires a lot of time. But really, it is worth it! Job opportunities!