Course details

Smalltalk

IST Acad. year 2006/2007 Summer semester 4 credits

Pure object orientation. Smalltalk - language. Smalltalk - programming environment. Programming in Smalltalk. Debugging and maintenance. Smalltalk - class library. Programming techniques,development of applications.

Guarantor

Janoušek Vladimír, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DITS)

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Credit

Time span

26 hrs exercises
13 hrs projects

Department

Department of Intelligent Systems (UITS)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

Ability to aply pure object-orientation in design and implementation of highly portable applications with GUI even with web interface. Ability to prototype applications. Ability to easily adapt to another object-oriented programming language.

Learning objectives

To learn programming in pure object-oriented language Smalltalk and using basic design patterns.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Ability to program in arbitrary programming language.

Study literature

Wilf LaLonde and John Pugh: Inside Smalltalk, Vol. 1, Prentice Hall, 1990 (ISBN: 0134684141).

Fundamental literature

Adele Goldberg and Dave Robson: Smalltalk-80: The Language. Addison Wesley, 1989, ISBN 0-201-13688-0, 585 pages.

Syllabus of seminars

Pure object-orientation.
Smalltalk - language and system.
Smalltalk - programming environment.
Programming in Smalltalk.
Debugging and maintenance.
Smalltalk - basic classes, programming techniques.
GUI architecture.
Development of applications with GUI.
Parallel and distributed programming, network applications.
Development of applications with web interface.
Multimedia.
Interoperability, databases.
Summary, conclusion.

Progress assessment

Working application in Smalltalk, written test.

Controlled instruction

There are no checked study.