UNIT 1. INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

1. Concept of software
2. Source code, object code and executable code; virtual machines
3. Types of programming languages
4. Characteristics of the most widespread languages
5. Phases of application development

UNIT 2. THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

1. Software life cycle models
2. Requirements analysis and specification
3. Design
4. Implementation. General concepts of software development
5. System validation and verification
6. Software testing
7. Software quality
8. Commonly used tools for software development
9. Software development project management

UNIT 3. VERSION MANAGEMENT: GIT

1. What is version control?
2. What is GIT?
3. Why GIT?
4. Installing GIT
5. GitHub and its relationship to GIT
6. Workflow in GIT (Workflow)
7. Creating a repository
8. File changes
9. Undo changes
10. Synchronize repositories
11. Rewrite history

UNIT DIDACTIC 4. INTRODUCTION TO THE OBJECT ORIENTED PARADIGM

1. Software development cycle under the object-oriented paradigm: Object-oriented analysis, design and programming
2. Analysis of the software construction process: Modularity
3. Distinction of the module concept in the object-oriented paradigm
4. Identifying objects as abstractions of the real-world entities to be modeled

UNIT DIDACTIC 5. CLASSES AND OBJECTS

1. Distinguishing the concept of class and its attributes, methods and encapsulation mechanism
2. Analysis of objects: State, behavior and identity:
3. Using objects as class instances. Current instance (this, self, current)
4. Identifying the program concept in the object-oriented paradigm. OOP = Objects + Messages

UNIT 6. GENERALIZATION/SPECIALIZATION: INHERITANCE

1. Description of the concept of inheritance: Single and multiple
2. Distinguishing multiple inheritance
3. Creating objects in inheritance
4. Hierarchical classification of classes

UNIT 7. RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CLASSES

1. Distinction between Aggregation/Composition
2. Distinction between Generalization/ Specialization
3. Identification of associations

TEACHING UNIT 8. POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS

1. Concept
2. Types
3. Compile-time polymorphism (overloading)
4. Runtime polymorphism (dynamic binding)
5. Polymorphic objects
6. Static and dynamic type checking

UNIT DIDACTIC 9. STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES.

1. Identifying basic elements: constants, variables, operators and expressions
2. Analysis of control structures: sequential, conditional and repetition
3. Distinguishing between functions and procedures
4. Demonstration of function and procedure calls
5. Using function and procedure calls included in classes

UNIT DIDACTIC 10. INFORMATION STRUCTURE

1. Enumeration of simple data: Numeric (integer and real), logical, character, string, pointer or memory reference
2. Structured data: Arrays
3. Memory management mechanisms

UNIT DIDACTIC 11. OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

1. Object-oriented programming language analysis and object-oriented paradigm
2. Comparison between the most common object-oriented programming languages. Essential features
3. Class libraries

UNIT 12. PARADIGM IMPLEMENTATION USING AN OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

1. Language choice
2. Enumeration of the types of applications
3. Development tools
4. Data types and basic characteristic elements of the language. Instructions
5. Study and use of the basic classes included in the class library
6. Definition of classes
7. Construction of methods. Overloading
8. Construction of attributes
9. Construction of the class interface
10. Construction of classes including Aggregation/Composition and Association relations
11. Construction of classes with inheritance
12. Construction of classes with multiple inheritance
13. Definition of abstract classes
14. Construction of classes with inheritance including polymorphism
15. Use of exceptions
16. Event management
17. Use of threads
18. Definition and analysis of network programming