Course catalogue

• Introduction to OOP and UML.
• Java Language Fundamentals: Data types, Variable declarations, Operators and Assignment, Control structures, Strings, Arrays, Collections, Wrapper classes, Record classes.
• Java as an OOP language: Classes, Constructors, Access modifiers, Packages, Interfaces, Garbage collection, Encapsulation, Cohesion, Coupling.
• Exception Handling: Basics, Exception Hierarchy, The Throwable class, Unchecked and checked exceptions, Exception and Inheritance, User defined Exceptions, Redirecting and Re-throwing Exceptions
• Introduction to Concurrent programming and Multithreading: Introduction, Thread Creation, Thread Life cycle, priorities and scheduling, Synchronization, Communication of Threads.
• Files and I/O Streams: File Input stream and File output stream, Serialization.
• AWT, Swings, JavaFX.

This course covers the fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) using Java. The main learning objectives for this course are:

• To build and develop OOP thinking: Learn to think in objects.
• Τo familiarize students with the basic features of the language API and the know-how to use them correctly and efficiently
• Τo cover the usage principles of encapsulation, coupling, cohesion, inheritance, polymorphism and method overloading/overriding
• Τo teach and demonstrate sound OOP practices and program structuring
• To develop analytical programming thinking and reasoning skills.

The aforementioned objectives are achieved through course lectures and extensive laboratory exercises.

Not required.

Written examinations (70%) which includes:

- Multiple choice questions.
- Short-answer questions.
- Problem solving.

Laboratory examination (30%) which includes:

- 3 programming projects.
- Oral examination.

Greek (English for Erasmus students)