This is a course about the practice of programming, an attempt to expose students to the development of real programs. Programming is more than just writing code. Programmers must also assess tradeoffs, choose among design alternatives, debug and test, improve performance, and maintain software written by themselves and others. At the same time, they must be concerned with compatibility, robustness, and reliability, while meeting specifications. Advanced Programming is about programming, not about a specific programming language.

The main teaching objectives of this course are:

1. to provide the students with a deep understanding of high level programming concepts and metaphors and which are their costs and limitations
2. to acquaint the students with modern principles, techniques, and best practices of sophisticated software construction
3. to introduce the students to techniques of programming at higher abstraction levels

Programming assignments developed during the course, and dicussion of a final project with oral examination. Students will make extensive use of libraries, so that it will be possible to write programs that solve real problems. 

The assignment involves a programming activity and includes an optional problem It is allowed to develop the solution into teams, however the proposed solution should be discussed individually.

At the end of this course, students will acquire advanced knowledge of programming techniques and methodologies for advanced software development. In particular, students will (i) know the main programming paradigms; (ii) be able to apply advanced programming techniques in the context of modern programming languages, and in particular, those mixing object-oriented and functional paradigms; (iii) be able to apply advanced design patterns in the context of the various programming paradigms.

Programming assignments developed during the course.

Students will improve their ability to write programs that allow them to solve complex tasks. Programming assignments are individual. However working with other students on problem sets often enhances the learning process. That is why the course has a relatively liberal collaboration process. It is allowed to develop the programing assignments into teams, however the proposed solution should be submitted individually. 

An important function of the course is to help students develop good programming practices, style, and skill, with as much personalized coaching and critique of individual student’s code as possible.

Programming projects will focus on learning and using techniques that are valuable for professional practice in developing and extending large scale software relatively easily. 

Getting evaluations and critiques of student assignment is also part of the learning process. That is one of the reasons students have to  submit their programming assignments individually. The proposed solution is instead discussed individually.