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Armend Azizi · Bachelor of Science in Informatics

Management and analytics for the University

Software development video tutorials have seen a steep increase in popularity in recent years. Their main advantage is that they thoroughly illustrate how certain technologies, programming languages, etc. are to be used. However, they come with a caveat: there is currently little support for searching and browsing their content. This makes it difficult to quickly find the useful parts in a longer video, as the only options are watching the entire video, leading to wasted time, or fast-forwarding through it, leading to missed information. We present an approach to mine video tutorials found on the web and enable developers to query their contents as opposed to just their metadata. The video tutorials are processed and split into coherent fragments, such that only relevant fragments are returned in response to a query. Moreover, fragments are automatically classified according to their purpose, such as introducing theoretical concepts, explaining code implementation steps, or dealing with errors. This allows developers to set filters in their search to target a specific type of video fragment they are interested in. In addition, the video fragments in CodeTube are complemented with information from other sources, such as Stack Overflow discussions, giving more context and useful information for understanding the concepts.

Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) are programming languages that are tailored to a particular application domain. This essential focus of DSLs allows one to write more concise and understandable programs, with tight stakeholder integration, and, when done properly, to improve code quality. The course will feature the current state of the art in both the design and implementation of DSLs. The course will emphasize the different design dimensions of DSLs, the involved language paradigms and features, and the drawbacks with respect to simple API modeling.

A Java SImple Contract checKer: a compiler plugin that turns contract annotations written in plain Java into runtime checks

Programming skills are essential but not enough to develop large and complex software systems that require the coordination of a team of specialists. Software engineering is about the development of such moderns software systems. Students will learn to go beyond programming, to coordinate a team, to apply modern methodologies and techniques.

Lorenzo Ferri · Bachelor of Science in Informatics

Aron Fiechter · Bachelor of Science in Informatics