This is a collection of (open) software material from the starting semester FHICT (Fontys University of Applied Sciences for ICT). It is publicly accessible to all and free of copyright. It has been created and collected over the years by teachers, with additions here and there by students! FHICT refers to this material from a canvas course, there is the FHICT-specific info there, while these github pages are fairly FHICT-independent.
In the theory material we distinguish:
Tutorial: practical steps, learning oriented.How-to guide: practical steps, problem oriented.Discussion: theoretical, understanding oriented.Reference: theoretical, information oriented. Accurate and complete.The assignments can be divided into:
Training (formerly exercises): finger exercises, belong to a piece of theory to practice, but are not to be used as evidence to convince your teacher.Competition: to convince your teacher that you not only understand it but also do it, you are going to make up your own assignments, vary and expand on existing ones!See more explanation on the principles.
Compare yourself to the personas and read the tips: Do you already have programming experience? Or just not at all?
The way of thinking, good to know something about…. Originally used as material for making knowledge with each other and with the teacher. Works best while discussing with marker at whiteboard.
An introduction to programming (still without objects).
Getting started with Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
This covers some non-programming aspects that a beginning software engineer should know and be able to do.
In the 1950’s programming and artificial intelligence started more or less started to take form at the same time. For decennia programming was the most used way to instruct machines what to do, but since 2023 artificial intelligence started to fly… It’s totally changing the way computer programs are built.
These pages were originally in Dutch (which you could still see, mainly in pictures here and there…). You can find the original pages at: Originals in Dutch : https://stasemsoft.github.io/softwarematerial/.