Advanced Computer Programming

Programming is a ubiquitous field in computer science: being able to produce and understand computer code using state-of-the-art technologies is of fundamental importance to both contribute and manage each software development task.

The course has both methodological and application-oriented objectives, to provide both theoretical understanding and practical skills for effectively programming in diverse computing domains.

From the methodological point of view, the course aims at allowing students to
- better understand computing domains
- select the most appropriate programming paradigms for each domain
- assess and improve code robustness against bugs
- improve code factorization and structuring skills
- fully exploit specialized hardware computing capabilities

From the application point of view, the course gives practical skills in
- application development using state-of-the-art object-oriented and scripting languages
- low-level programming for special purpose devices and embedded systems
- high-level programming for service oriented architectures

- ability of using using of languages for object oriented programming, generic programming and meta programming;
- ability of using languages for data-driven programming;
- ability of developing software for mobile devices (eg. Android) and embedded systems.