Abstract

Under the auspices of a DAAD funded educational project, a subproject devoted to different aspects of teaching the Java programming language started several years ago. The initial intention of the subproject was to attract members of the subproject to prepare some teaching ma- terials for teaching essentials of the Java programming language. During the last two years, some advanced Java topics have been selected and appropriate teaching materials have been produced. The available pool of common teaching materials can be used in a wide range of university courses in participating countries. In this paper we share some of the results and experiences collected dur- ing the subproject that come from intensive use of the prepared teaching materials for a variety of Java topics in different countries and universities.

Highlights

  • Coinciding with the introduction of the new and innovative trends in European high education, under the auspices of the “Stability Pact of South-Eastern Europe” and “DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst” (German foundation – “German Academic Exchange Service”), a project in the domain of education has been established in 2001

  • The prepared pool of teaching materials as well as its proposed organization is very important for all universities members of the project because:

  • ●● It covers a wide variety of Java topics including basic concepts and a lot of advanced features

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Summary

Introduction

Coinciding with the introduction of the new and innovative trends in European high education, under the auspices of the “Stability Pact of South-Eastern Europe” and “DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst” (German foundation – “German Academic Exchange Service”), a project in the domain of education has been established in 2001. The main idea of the project was to create and develop common courses in several fields of computer science and to enable the use of shared teaching materials at a wide range of universities in member countries of the project consortium. Its goals and members can be found in (Bothe et al, 2009; Budimac et al, 2011). The results of activities and efforts conducted under the subproject CTM_JOOP – “Common teaching materials on objectoriented programming using Java”, which started in 2004, are presented in this paper. Concluding remarks about teachers’ and students’ satisfaction and about the teaching materials are presented in the last two sections

Java for Teaching Programming
Use of Java in Different University Courses
Use of Java in Project Members’ Courses
Related Work
Distribution and Use of Common Pool of Java Teaching Materials
Teaching Material for Basic Java Topics
Teaching Materials for Advanced Java Topics
ECTS 6 ECTS
Findings
Discussion and Experiences about the Common Teaching Materials
Conclusion

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