This course develops the study of the mainconcepts of object oriented programming, for students that already had an introduction to the design and use of classes. It introduces some topics of object-oriented design, as represented by popular diagrammatic representations of the static structure of a program. It gives an emphasis on the concept of interface, inheritance and parametric polymorphism. It is based on problem solving throughreuse ofclass libraries, mainly those that supportcollections ofobjects. The building of graphical user interfaces and exception handling is also covered. It develops the study ofalgorithmsand introduces the topic of designing with efficiency in mind, through the selection of the appropriate collections. It introduces some preliminary issues on software engineering topics such as regression testing, code generation from models, refactoring and API documentation.

Knowledge:

• Object-­Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts, namely classes, interfaces, polymorphism and inheritance.
• Techniques and algorithms for processing data structures such as lists, strings, vectors, dictionaries, and sets.
• Basic mechanisms of generic programming.
• Class libraries and learn how to reuse them.
• Basic Software Engineering concepts, from a developer perspetive, such as software quality, reuse, development and maintenance costs, or implementation efficiency.

Application:

• Design and develop software applications using OOP.
• Problem solving with OOP.
• Using verification and validation techniques.
• Increasingly autonomous software development skills, both in solo and as a team member.

Soft­-Skills:

• Build up an interest for programming and solving problems.

1. Interface specification and documentation
2. Software design with classes
3. Interface polymorphism
4. Class inheritance
5. Inheritance polymorphism
6. Assertions
7. Unit and regression testing
8. Exception handling
9. Generic programming
10. Usage of collection generic types

1. Cay Horstmann, Java Concepts: for Java 7 and 8, Sixth Edition, Wiley, 2010.

2. F. Mário Martins, Java 8 - POO + Construções Funcionais, FCA, 2017.

3. Slides de Programação Orientada pelos Objectos (disponibilizados gradualmente na página moodle)

4. David J. Eck, Introduction to Programming Using Java, Seventh edition, 2016.