This course on OOFP 2025-26

Organization

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Organization #

The course consists of:

20 lectures (40 hours), and
10 labs (20 hours).

Julien Corman will teach the lectures and labs.

Schedule #

Lectures #

By default, lectures are scheduled on:

Tuesday 15:30 - 17:30
Thursday 10:30 - 12:30

Hint. Lectures can be followed via Teams (e.g. for students sitting at the back of the class), by joining the corresponding meeting (in the “Lectures” channel of this course’s Team).

Material

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Course material #

Lectures #

This website contains the lecture material.

Additional readings are listed in the dedicated section. We emphasize that these are optional (the course is self-contained).

Assignments #

Assignments will be released via Codeboard.
Details are provided in the dedicated section.

Reading path

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Reading path #

This page lists the topics covered during each lecture. It will be updated after a lecture.

Advice. If you miss a lecture, make sure to read the sections that we covered (and do the related exercises) before the next lecture. Otherwise you may fall behind.

Warning. On this website, the material is grouped in thematic chapters, to ease your revisions for the exam. These chapters do not always reflect the order of the lectures.

Evaluation

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Evaluation #

Evaluation for this course is based on:

a written exam, and
5 to 6 assignments with oral presentations.

The assignments are optional.

Marking scheme #

An assignment counts only if your mark for this assignment is superior to your mark at the written exam.
If this is the case, then the assignment counts for 5% of your final mark.

Example. For the marks reported on the right:

Prerequisites

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Prerequisites #

Students are expected to have completed the Computer Programming course (INF/01 76203).

Consequence. The following topics are not covered in this course:

variables, assignments, variable scope,

basic data types (int, char, boolean, etc.).

expression evaluation,

conditional statements (“if/then/else”) and loops,

methods/functions,

arrays,

basic syntax of Java,

etc.

Hint. If you have not completed this course, you can ask for office hours to get help on these topics.

Office hours

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Office hours #

You can ask for office hours to get help with:

prerequisites for this course,
an assignment,
a notion seen during a lecture,
etc.

These appointments must be scheduled via email or Teams.

Additional content #

Office hours can also be organized on demand for a group of students, on any of the following topics:

hierarchical file system,
git,
using a terminal,
text editors and IDEs (landscape and usage).

This content is optional. It is meant to help you interact with a computer, so that your learning experience does not get impaired by technological obstacles.

Content

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Content of the course #

This is a programming course for beginners, with an emphasis on:

(class-based) object-oriented programming and

functional programming.

Programming languages #

We will use:

Haskell at the beginning of this course, for a short introduction to functional programming, and
Java during the rest of the course, for object-oriented and more general techniques.

Note. Many notions seen in this course are not specific to Haskell or Java. Accordingly, some sections may use pseudocode for conciseness.

Additional resources

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Additional resources #

This course is self-contained, meaning that no extra reading is required.
We list here optional resources that may help you complement it, or provide a different perspective.

A reading list for this course is available in the catalogue of the Unibz’s library. All books can be accessed via the library (either physically or digitally).

Among these books, we highlight the following five.

Introductory textbooks #

Java #

Java : the complete reference (11th edition) by Herbert Schildt McGraw-Hill Education, 2019

Software

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Recommended software #

Lectures #

No particular software is required for the lectures.

The exercises can be solved using web applications, for instance:

the Haskell playground and
the Java playground.

However, a proper code editor may be more comfortable.

Assignments #

For the assignments, you will need an IDE for Haskell and Java (possibly the same one). We provide detailed instructions below.

Before these, we briefly explain what a package manager is, why it can be useful, and how to install and use one.