POS 1

Course Overview

Development Environment and Tools

• Introduction to Linux as Development Environment
  • Linux Command-Line
  • Installation and Configuration of Tools
  • Kate or VSCodium or KDevelop
  • Debugging (commandline + GUI)
• Git Introduction (reference material for learning git)

Introduction to Programming in Python

• Introduction to Programming
• Hello Python
• Strings
• Functions
• Container Data Types
• Modules and Packages
• Documentation
• Creating Your Own Data Types

Programming Exercises

Python

• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2

Prior Exams

• POS 1 midterm f2021 (group a)
• POS 1 midterm f2021 (group b)
• POS 1 midterm f2021 (extra)
• POS 1 final f2021 (group a)
• POS 1 midterm f2022 (group a)
• POS 1 midterm f2022 (group b)
• POS 1 final f2022 (group a)
• POS 1 final f2022 (group b)
• POS 1 midterm f2023 (group a)
• POS 1 midterm f2023 (group b)
• POS 1 final f2023 (group a)
• POS 1 final f2023 (extra)

Links

Notes

• Distributed Version Control
• Git Cheatsheet
• Connecting to Linux Using SSH
• Selection of Linux Commands
• Introduction to VSCodium

Software

• KDE Neon Linux-based VirtualBox image with all programming tools we need: progamming.ova
  Download with username: student, ask in class for the password
  Login with username: student, password: changeme
• VirtualBox
• KDE Neon Linux ISO image
• Text editor: VSCodium or Visual Studio Code

Interactive Learning Platforms

The best way to learn programming is to write code. Have fun!

• Codewars
• Exercism (open source, see exercism on GitHub)
• freeCodeCamp
• HackerRank

Grading

>87.5: 1, >75: 2, >62.5 : 3, >50: 4, ≤50: 5

To avoid plagiarism and prevent cheating, all grades (including tests, projects and assignments) require a short oral defense to be valid.

Content of the Curriculum (1st Term)

Curriculum in the Legal Information System (see attachment 1/9 B.1 according to subject table I.2)

• Foundations of programming
  • Statements and control flow
  • Basic types and operators
  • Procedural programming
  • Graphical representation of algorithms
  • Implementing algorithms in a high level programming language
• Application programming
  • User interface development
  • Hardware-specific programming
• Software development process
  • Development environment
  • Testing and troubleshooting
  • Debugging