Object orientation represents the state of the art in software development today. Given problems are first transformed into an object-oriented model and then into an object-oriented program with the help of object-oriented analysis and design methods. Aim of the module "Object-Oriented Modelling and Programming" is to learn basic concepts of object-oriented modelling using UML as the modelling notation and object-oriented programming using the Java programming language. After completing the module, students should be able to independently develop object-oriented programs based on Java for solving medium-sized problems.

- know basic concepts of object-oriented programming with Java

- know the terminology of object-oriented modelling and programming and use the appropriate terms precisely in discussions

- can describe what object-oriented programmes presented to them do

- independently develop models and programmes for solving medium-sized problems

- systematically examine their own and other people's models and programmes for errors

- use modern development environments for modelling and developing programmes

- independently develop programmes for given problems by consistently applying the concepts of object-oriented modelling and programming

- transfer practical experience in programme development to new tasks

- independently develop programmes with concurrency

In the first part, basic concepts of object-oriented modelling and programming are taught:

- Models and modelling

- UML class diagrams

- Classes and objects

- data encapsulation

- inheritance

- Polymorphism and dynamic binding

- Exception handling

- Genericity

In the second part, important concepts and classes of the JDK class library are introduced and the classes are used in solving medium-sized problems:

- Java Collection API

- IO and Streams

- GUI applications with JavaFX

- Parallel programming with threads

In the third part, advanced solution strategies are presented and other programming paradigms are introduced and compared with the object-oriented paradigm:

- Backtracking, Branch and Bound, Greedy

- Local Search, Evolutionary Algorithms

- Functional programming (e.g. Java-Lamdas, Standard ML)

- Logical programming (e.g. Prolog)

- Rule-based programming (e.g. Drools)