CPSC 329 Schedule

Week 1: 8/28-9/1

Topics: introduction; good software; the software development process; working in teams

• course introduction

Slides:

• good software and process models

Slides:

• software methodologies, working in teams

Week 2: 9/4-9/8

Topics: version control; understanding what the software is to do

• Version Control with Subversion (version 1.8), chapters 1, 2, and 4
  This is a lot of technical material, and it covers the commandline SVN client (we'll primarily be using a plugin for Eclipse instead). What this means: read for the concepts - what is the key terminology, what is Subversion's approach to version control, what are the operations, what is the typical workflow, what are the best practices - rather than the details of commands and syntax.
• Subversive User Guide This is also rather a lot of technical material, this time about Subversive, one of the Eclipse plugin SVN clients. It will also be less meaningful until you are sitting in front of Eclipse actually using Subversive (which will happen in lab), but it is still worth reading through it for the concepts - how the SVN operations import, update, commit, etc and the typical workflow translate into the Subversive interface.

Slides:

• version control concepts; SVN

• SVN/lab 2 recap
• understanding activities: introduction + overview, user goals, features, requirements

• fixing lack of SVN icons
• understanding activities: overview, user goals, features, requirements; scenarios

Week 3: 9/11-9/15

Topics: understanding what the software is to do; basic program design

• user goals, features, requirements example

• followup on teamwork class prep and branching/merging in SVN
• requirements analysis
• program design (decomposition, abstraction)

• lab 2 comments
• program design (determining classes, CRC cards)
• Klondike example: requirements document, CRC cards (in progress)

Week 4: 9/18-9/22

Topics: program design

• program design (Klondike classes, use cases)
• Klondike example: use case diagram, play game use case

• program design (responsibilities and collaborators - use cases example, refining the organization of classes and responsibilities, sequence diagrams)
• Klondike example: CRC cards, version 2 (many responsibilities and collaborators included - is this complete?)

• program design (towards methods - sequence diagrams, class diagrams)
• Klondike example: CRC cards, version 3 (a few more responsibilities included), sequence diagram (covers part of the play game use case)

Week 5: 9/25-9/29

Topics: program design; basic design principles

• program design (finishing up, specifications)
• Klondike example: class diagram (partial)

• lab 3 comments
• program design (OO design principles, code to the interface)
• Rick's guitars: code (not loosely coupled)

• program design (mutable objects, Law of Demeter, 5Cs)

Week 6: 10/2-10/6

Topics: UI design

• "User Interface Design For Programmers", J. Spolsky
• How to design a great user experience for desktop applications
• UX checklist for desktop applications

Class Prep: available on Canvas

Slides:

• program design (5Cs - clarity, consistency)
• UI design

• UI design

• UI design

Week 7: 10/9-10/13

Topics: implementation strategies and coding practices; verification and validation

• implementation (approaches; choosing data structures)

• implementation (coding practices - defensive programming; assertions)

Week 8: 10/16-10/20

Topics: testing; threads

• testing

• testing (designing for testing)

• sections 12.1-12.3 of Introduction to Programming Using Java, D. Eck

• lab 6 comments
• threads
• threads examples: creating and running threads, waiting for threads to finish (join), thread shutdown
  For all of the examples, the Demo class(es) contain the main program.

Week 9: 10/23-10/27

Topics: threads; networking and streams

• threads (mutual exclusion, wait/notify)
• threads examples: mutual exclusion - ATM (synchronized blocks), mutual exclusion - counter (synchronized methods), coordinated countdown and producer-consumer (wait and notify)
  For all of the examples, the Demo class(es) contain the main program.

• section 11.4 of Introduction to Programming Using Java, D. Eck

Slides and Examples:

• threads wrapup (summary of what to use when)
• networking
• example: client-server networking (simple server)

Week 10: 10/30-11/3

Topics: networking and streams; code review

• code reviews
• lab 7 comments
• code review checklists: general checklists, design principles checklist

• code reviews (examples from project 1)

Week 11: 11/6-11/10

Topics: designing client-server programs; designing for flexibility

• designing client-server programs (and a bit of GUI programs)

• "The Open-Closed Principle", R. C. Martin

Class Prep: available on Canvas

Slides:

• project 3 comments
• designing client-server programs and designing for flexibility (encapsulating what varies, open-closed principle)

• "The Liskov Substitution Principle", R. C. Martin
  Some of the discussion is specific to C++ (such as virtual methods), but the "real problem" (pages 5-7) applies to Java (and other object-oriented languages) as well and is the thing to focus on.

Class Prep: available on Canvas

Slides:

• lab 9 comments
• encapsulating what varies (examples - subclassing, delegation)

Week 12: 11/13-11/17

Topics: designing for flexibility; design patterns

• LSP, favoring composition over inheritance, encapsulating what varies

• encapsulating what varies, when to design, design principles, Strategy

• design patterns (Strategy, Observer)

Week 13: 11/20-11/24

Topics: design patterns

• project 3 comments (understanding and design, plus some important practical things regarding rule sets and turn-taking)
• design patterns (conclusion of Observer)

Week 14: 11/27-12/1

Topics: design patterns; design exercise

• design patterns (MVC, Visitor)

• design patterns (Decorator)

Slides:

• design patterns (Factory Method and Abstract Factory)

Week 15: 12/4-12/8

Topics: design exercise; wrapup

• design example (Wa-Tor)

• code review (project 2)

• code review (project 2)
• design example (Wa-Tor)

Reading Period: 12/9-12/11

Exams: 12/12-12/15

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