Teaching

The teaching activities of the Software Languages Lab fall into courses taught within the VUB CS programmes, industrial courses and international courses.

For the structure of VUB's bachelor and master programmes, we refer to the departemental pages.

• Algorithms and Data Structures 1
• Algorithms and Data Structures 2
• Geïntegreerd Project derde jaar Bachelor in de Computerwetenschappen
• Interpretation of computer programs 1
• Interpretation of computer programs 2
• Programmeerproject eerste jaar Bachelor in de Computerwetenschappen
• Softwareproject tweede jaar Bachelor in de Computerwetenschappen
• Structuur van Computerprogramma's I

• Aspect Oriented Software Development (aka Techniques of Software Architecture)
• Capita Selecta of Software Engineering
• Computer graphics
• Concepts of High-level Programming Languages
• Functional Programming
• Innovatie in het Informatica-onderwijs
• Object-Oriented Software Development - Software Ontwerp
• Principles of Object Oriented Languages
• Programmeerprincipes
• Research Topics in Software: Esoteric Programming Paradigms
• Software Architectures
• Software Distribution and Mobility Seminar

Members of the Software Languages lab teach industry courses on a variety of topics in object-oriented software development. All courses are given by researchers of the lab, in English or in Dutch (depending on the participants' preference). The courses can be fine-tuned to address specific needs or wishes. The leitmotiv through all the modules is the use of Java as an object-oriented programming medium, and the consistent use of UML for expressing object-oriented analysis and designs.

• Basics of OO
  • Basics of object-oriented programming in Java
  • Basics of object-oriented analysis and design in UML
  • Technology Platform Level 1 (E.g., applets, JDBC, AWT, Swing, JavaDoc)

• Advanced OO features
  • Advanced object-oriented programming in Java (E.g., concurrency, exception handling, remote method invocation)
  • Frameworks and components for object-oriented reuse
  • Technology Platform Level 2 (E.g., agents, mobility, security, distribution, CORBA, JavaBeans)

• OO research and state-of-the-art
  • Inside Java A detailed look at Java garbage collection techniques.
  • History of object-oriented programming A historic overview of OO programming languages.
  • Research Trends in OO (E.g., refactoring, design patterns, aspect-oriented programming)

• Event-driven programming
  • Event-based Concurrency Control

Some of these modules have other modules (or related experience) as a prerequisite. A schematic representation of how the different modules depend on one another makes this more clear.

For more information about these courses, please send a mail to Prof. Dr. Theo D'Hondt or Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter .

Recently, members of the Software Languages Lab have been the main driving forces behind the UbiLab initiative.

The Software Languages Lab is one of the leading partners in EMOOSE (“European Master in Object-Oriented Software Engineering”), an international program involving a number of different universities from all over the world.

EMOOSE AOSD Course