CPSC 329 Syllabus

Week 1: 9/1-9/5

Topics: course introduction; great software; requirements gathering and use cases

Reading: reflection questions are due by 10:30am on the day for which the reading is assigned

• Wed: OOAD ch 1, appendix ii (reflection questions)
• Fri: OOAD ch 2 (reflection questions)

Examples:

• Inventory.java (version of the original Rick's Guitars Inventory class which uses the parameterized Collections classes and for-each loops)
• Type.java (version of the guitar type enumerated type with instance variables and methods)
• tic-tac-toe requirements list

Week 2: 9/8-9/12

Topics: requirements gathering and use cases; determining classes, state, and behavior

Reading:

• Mon: OOAD ch 3 (reflection questions)
• Fri: OOAD ch 4 (reflection questions)

Examples:

• hw #1 sample solutions

Week 3: 9/15-9/19

Topics: determining classes, state, and behavior; basic design principles

Reading:

• Mon: Horstmann ch 2.3-2.4, 2.6-2.7 (reflection questions)
• Wed: Horstmann ch 2.9-2.12 (we haven't covered all of the aspects of UML diagrams that are used in 2.12; don't worry about those particular details) (reflection questions)
• Fri: OOAD ch 5 (part 1) (reflection questions)

Week 4: 9/22-9/26

Topics: basic design principles

Reading:

• Mon: OOAD "OO Catastrophe!", Horstmann ch 3.4-3.5 (reflection questions)
• Wed Fri: OOAD ch 5 (part 2) (reflection questions)

Examples:

• Klondike, from use case to class diagram: use case, step 1, step 2, step 3, step 4, step 5, step 6, step 7, step 8, step 9, step 10, step 11, step 12, step 13, step 14, step 15, step 16, step 17, step 18
• duck simulator: design refinements, part 1

Week 5: 9/29-10/3

Topics: working on a bigger system

Reading:

• Mon: OOAD ch 6 (don't worry about the parts about design patterns and MVC) (reflection questions)
• Wed: OOAD ch 7 (to page 349) (reflection questions)
• Fri: OOAD ch 7 (page 350 to the end) (reflection questions)

Examples:

• duck simulator: design refinements, whole thing

Week 6: 10/6-10/10

Topics: implementation, verification and testing

Reading:

• Mon: OOAD ch 9 (to page 435) (reflection questions)
• Wed: OOAD ch 9 (pages 436-459) (reflection questions)
• Fri: OOAD ch 9 (page 460 to the end) (reflection questions)

Examples:

• tux racer feature list and use case diagram
• Wednesday's code review examples: code only, with notes
• flip test case examples: class notes, code
  • challenge #1: write the missing test cases (including those for the rest of the game flow)...are there any bugs in the program?
  • challenge #2: write comments for the code (this will give you some practice reading and thinking about someone else's code)

Week 7: 10/13-10/17

Topics: more design principles

Reading:

• Fri: OOAD ch 8 (to page 399) (reflection questions)

Examples:

• Wednesday's commonality analysis exercise
• OCP examples

Week 8: 10/20-10/24

Topics: group meetings to work on project (Mon and Wed); more design principles (Fri)

Reading:

• Fri: OOAD ch 8 (page 400 to the end) (reflection questions)

Week 9: 10/27-10/31

Topics: more design principles; SVN

Reading: (optional readings in [])

• Wed Fri: DP ch 1; [Horstmann ch 5.2, 5.4] (reflection questions)

Examples:

• Friday's SVN notes

Week 10: 11/3-11/7

Topics: more design principles; design patterns

Reading: (optional readings in [])

• Mon: DP ch 2; [Horstmann ch 5.3] (reflection questions)
• Wed: DP ch 9 (through page 352); [Horstmann ch 5.1] (reflection questions)
• Fri: DP ch 9 (page 353 to the end); [Horstmann ch 5.5] (reflection questions)

Examples:

• LSP, composition, aggregation
• strategy pattern
• observer pattern

Week 11: 11/10-11/14

Topics: design patterns; client-server networking

Reading:

• Mon: DP ch 12 (pages 526-548, 559-560) [549-558 are optional] (reflection questions)
• Wed: Horstmann ch 5.7-5.8 (reflection questions)
• Fri: Eck ch 11.4 (skip 11.4.1) (reflection questions)

Examples:

• iterator pattern
• iterator examples: CircularIterator, main program demonstrating CircularIterator, OddIterator
• composite pattern

Week 12: 11/17-11/21

Topics: networking and threads

Reading:

• Mon: Eck ch 8.5.1-8.5.2, Eck ch 11.5.1-11.5.2 (reflection questions)
• Fri: Eck ch 8.5.3-8.5.5 (reflection questions)

Project #1 Opportunity: You may rewrite the final design and discussion phase of project #1 if you wish; the new grade would replace the grade on that part of the original handin. For full credit, include both the discussion elements asked for (items (a), (b), and (c) in "Final design and discussion" paragraph in the project handout) and a detailed discussion of how to fix any violations of the design principles that you identified or that were identified in the feedback on your project. You are welcome to discuss your ideas and what I'm looking for with me, but otherwise this should be your own work (not the group's and not a friend's). (Due by the end-of-semester deadline, 12/18 10pm.)

Examples:

• knock knock client and server: KnockKnockServer.java (server), KnockKnockClient.java (client), KnockKnockClient2.java (client which lets the user play along), KnockKnockShutdown.java (client which tells the server to shut down)
• multi-threaded knock knock server: ThreadedKnockKnockServer.java (server), TellAJoke.java (telling-a-joke part, for the threads)
• better designed multi-threaded knock knock server, which also waits for any connected clients to finish before shutting down: ThreadedKnockKnockServer2.java (server), TellAJoke2.java (telling-a-joke part, for the threads)

Week 13: 11/24-11/28

Topics: design problem, threads

Reading: no required reading this week

Week 14: 12/1-12/5

Topics: project

Reading: no required reading this week

Week 15: 12/8-12/12

Topics: putting it all together

Reading:

• Mon: OOAD ch 10 (through page 502) (reflection questions)
• Wed: OOAD ch 10 (pages 503-530) (reflection questions)
• Fri: OOAD ch 10 (page 531 to the end) (reflection questions)

Examples:

• Monday's notes
• Wednesday's and Friday's notes

Reading Period & Exams: 12/13-12/19

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