teaching

COMP122

I teach COMP122, UoL’s intro to object oriented programming. This is a compulsory first year module for all our computer science degree programmes and also attracts the odd visiting student or people from other schools. In 2023 we had 360 students on the module. Content-wise the module is structured into three blocks:

1. Imperative programming in Java,
2. OOP key concepts and
3. Design Patterns.

On the way we look left and right for common practices such as version control, doc and build tools and unit testing. This module is very much hands on and students typically spend most of their time in TA-supported programming labs where they solve programming exercises. Below are some impressions of what we do in these labs and preparatory concept videos. Nowadays, all assignment and lab exercises use CodeGrade to generate automated feedback quickly.

Labs

Concept Videos

Past Teaching

• COMP122 Object-oriented programming (Liverpool, since 2019; old pages).
• CS4 Algorithmic Game Theory and Applications (Edinburgh, 2017)
• CS131 Mathematics for Computer Scientists II (Warwick, 2015)
• CS415 Decision Procedures (Warwick, 2015)

Random Notes

• My Favourite Final-year Student Projects of 2022
• Awesome Student Projects of 2021
• Partially Automated Assessment of Programming Assignments with Check50
• Using Gather.town for teaching