Study Guide

Objective

Students are able to create, run and test programs in familiar environment, datacenter. Students are able to create cgi-programs that access database. They are able to use regular expressions. Students know about XML processing, multithreading and GUI -programming.

Content

Course is about scripting to deepen students skills. Normal programming language structures like conditions, loops, string, lists, functions, file I/O and some specific topics like regular expressions, cgi-programming, database access, multithreading, XML-processing, GUI-programming.

Materials

Lecture presentations, online resources, laboratory exercises

Teaching methods

Scheduled track:
You participate into scheduled contact lessons. You studies are progressing in the pace of the group schedule and self paced learning activities.

Independent track:
If you are working in a company, organization or a higher education project aligned with the study unit learning outcomes, you are able to complete the study unit in your workplace. In this case contact your responsible teacher in the beginning of the studies to agree with a development project you can execute in your work. Successful completion requires you study the topics in theory and practice. You must show your skills via a demonstration, which is determined based on learning objectives.

Exam schedules

Retakes are arranged as needed in agreement with the teacher

Completion alternatives

If you are working in a company, organization or a higher education project aligned with the study unit learning outcomes, you are able to complete the study unit in your workplace. In this case contact your responsible teacher in the beginning of the studies to agree with a development project you can execute in your work. Successful completion requires you study the topics in theory and practice. You must show your skills via a demonstration, which is determined based on learning objectives.

Student workload

Achieving the learning outcomes requires 135 hours of work of which about half is contact lessons and laboratory exercises and the other half self study, practice exams and remote laboratory exercises

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Excellent (5), good (4-3), satisfactory (2-1), failed (0).

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment is based on learning diary and assessment discussion

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

(a) look for information in the key information sources of the field
(c) identify interrelated tasks
(e) use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field.