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Four to five sessions before the exam. We work through past papers, close the gaps on OOP, inheritance and methods, and teach you how to attack tasks you have never seen before.
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Past-paper trace, live
// trace exercise: what does this print? int n = 5; for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) { if (i % 2 == 0) continue; System.out.print(i + " "); }
Six task archetypes that show up in almost every Programming I exam. We train each one separately, until you stop thinking and just type.
What is in s after the loop runs?
Six archetypes, one anatomy: tracing, time pressure, UML, fill-in-the-blank, common mistakes, stack traces.
public class Tier { private String name; private int alter; // ... public String laut() { // ? } }
// Complete equals() correctly: public boolean equals(Object o) { if (this == o) return true; if (o == null || _______ != o.getClass()) return false; Person p = _______; return alter == p.alter && _______; }
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at Person.equals(Person.java:17) at App.main(App.java:9) → What is in name? → Who is calling .equals()?
Every task has a pattern. Train the six archetypes once and you recognise them in any new exam.
Most German universities split Programming I exams into a fundamentals block (Java syntax, control flow, tracing) and an OOP block (classes, inheritance, polymorphism). The split below mirrors a typical Klausur, including the past papers we coach against.
The half that decides if you pass. Tracing, off-by-ones, scope and array logic. Doable with steady practice.
The half that decides your grade. Inheritance, polymorphism, abstract classes and interfaces. The classic stumbling block.
If you start now and invest 4 to 5 sessions, you have a real chance. Less time? We compress. More? We go deeper, e.g. into generics or your own data structures.
You share your screen, we walk through your last exercise and your exam material. We see where you really stand, not where you think you stand.
We train what shows up in part 1 of every exam: reading methods, code tracing, loop logic. You type, we ask.
The hardest block. Classes, inheritance, polymorphism, equals/hashCode, on the actual material from your course. We build a mini model together.
You solve your university's past paper under time pressure. We discuss each task: what you nailed, where you spun out, and which types are likely to come back.
I built Study IT because I have seen first-hand how IT teaching at university falls apart.
The people who teach here know code from real projects. Practice decides, not the diploma.
Reach me directly: marcel.schmidtpeter@study-it.education
Apprenticeship as a software developer, then software development in industry. He knows what examiners expect and where first-year students stumble on OOP, data structures and algorithms.
„You understand programming when you know why a solution works. My goal: that you don't copy code, but get it working yourself."
Pay per session or grab the exam package. First chat is free, if it does not fit you have lost nothing.
30 min talk, then decide. If we cannot help you, we tell you straight.
If your exam is not the bottleneck, one of these probably fits better.
