Thursday, January 12, 2012

Java course IAG0040 in Tallinn Technical University

Now is the time to make an official announcement: I am no longer teaching Java to Master's students in Tallinn Technical University (TTÜ).

I have really enjoyed doing it during the past 6 years, and I definitely learned a lot during this time.
Teaching in a university is not something you would do for money and it also eats up a lot of your spare time - I did it because I know I am good at it and I wanted to share my knowledge and experience in the field, especially considering the fact that most university professors/lecturers have little understanding of how software development really works and how to teach it. I did it for those students each year who really had their eyes shining. Because of them, it was worth it.

However, Java is no longer the coolest programming language out there, it slowly dies due to lack of or very slow development. Its features are outdated, it is not as productive as I would like it to be. It's time to move on. Probably Java still is one of the best programming languages to teach in the universities, but students should understand that world software development field is evolving quickly and they need to keep an eye of what is happening in the industry.

I am still a big fan of JVM - it is well tuned for performance and it is cross-platform. .NET/C# is not nearly an option. I really like Scala, Clojure seems very interesting, as well as Vala, Go and Dart. Kotlin seems very promising as well. Sooner or later there will be another popular language on JVM that most Java developers will be able to shift to. Hopefully there won't be too many of such languages and hopefully they will be statically typed. I recommend every Java developer to check the Play framework for a fresh look at Java. Anyway, the current trend in software development is to merge academic computer science and industrial programming together again - you should pay a lot more attention to functional programming in addition to the good old object oriented programming (OOP) now. The concept of DevOps is also becoming more and more important, meaning that soon you will not be able to survive as a developer, if you don't know how to create a software product from scratch until the end, deploying it yourself to the production system.

However, I am not going to leave the teaching 'business'. I will still give talks at conferences, organize trainings, and hopefully contribute to making IT education better with Codeborne Academia, but more on that later. I am still open to offers from universities and colleges as well, feel free to contact me.

Now the important part

All the code written during the course by me and the students during the past 6 years is now available on the Github:
https://github.com/angryziber/java-course

The lastest (2011) lecture slides are available on Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/antonkeks/presentations

Or go to specific lectures using the links below:

  1. Introduction
  2. Java basics, program flow
  3. OOP in Java
  4. Exceptions and Collections
  5. Generics, Enums, Assertions
  6. Unit testing and Agile software development
  7. Text processing, Charsets & Encodings
  8. I/O, Files, Streams
  9. Networking, Reflection
  10. Threads and Concurrency
  11. Design Patterns
  12. Web, Servlets, XML
  13. JDBC, Logging
  14. Java Beans, Applets, GUI
  15. Advacned: Ant, Scripting, Spring & Hibernate


18 comments:

Unknown said...

Do you plan any functional programming course?

When you just start learning computer programming, it's no big difference between widely popular imperative style and more academic but nowadays growing in popularity because of multi-processor hardware functional programming style. But later when you already have adopted way of imperative thinking, you can struggle understanding functional programming concept.

Isn't university a good place to teach functional programming?

I offer my voluntary help in preparing lecture materials and practical sessions. That way I can share my knowledge and learn something new as well.

Unknown said...

That may be a very good idea for TTÜ.

In most universities, however, functional programming is part of the curriculum - it is an important topic in Computer Science.

In the past couple of decades it wasn't widely used in the industry, but nowadays we can see and interesting merge between academia and practical usage :-)

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