CPSC 329 Syllabus

Week 1: 8/30-9/3

Topics: introduction; great software; stage 1: understanding

Notes:

• class notes (OOAD ch 1)

Examples:

• Rick's Guitars (early version), with fancier enums, generics, for-each loops, etc

Notes:

• class notes (requirements and use cases)

Week 2: 9/6-9/10

Topics: understanding: requirements gathering, use cases, scenarios, thinking through

• class notes (requirements and use cases)

Notes:

• class notes (version control)
• class notes (syntax)

• class notes (fixing SVN problems, requirements and use cases)

Week 3: 9/13-9/17

Topics: analysis and design

Notes:

• class notes (level of detail in requirements and use cases, analysis, textual analysis)

Notes:

• class notes (requirements and use cases, identifying classes and responsibilities, CRC cards)

Notes:

• class notes (CRC cards, sequence diagrams, class diagrams)

Week 4: 9/20-9/24

Topics: analysis and design; basic design principles

• class notes (CRC cards, sequence diagrams, class diagrams)

Notes:

• class notes (duck simulator notes, OOAD ch 5 part 1, little annoyances)

Notes:

• class notes (little annoyances, design principles, class design)

Week 5: 9/27-10/1

Topics: basic design principles; understanding revisited

Notes:

• class notes (SVN, class design)

• class notes (class design, duck simulator design discussion)

Notes:

• class notes (big problems, big picture - features, requirements, use case diagrams)

Week 6: 10/4-10/8

Topics: understanding revisited; getting started on big projects

• class notes (use case diagrams, identifying modules)

Notes:

• class notes (architecturally significant features, reducing risk)

Notes:

• class notes (shuffling, architecturally significant odds-and-ends, klondike design)

Week 7: 10/11-10/15

Topics: more design principles

• class notes (looking for commonality, encapsulating what varies)

Notes:

• class notes (OCP, DRY, SRP)

Week 8: 10/18-10/22

Topics: more design principles

• class notes (instance variables vs. parameters, design decisions)

Notes:

• class notes (LSP, alternatives to inheritance)

• class notes (alternatives to inheritance, design principle recap)

Week 9: 10/25-10/29

Topics: implementation and testing

Notes:

• class notes (points from OOAD chapter 9, implementation approaches)

Notes:

• class notes (implementation approaches, testing)

• class notes (testing, programming by contract vs defensive programming)

Week 10: 11/1-11/5

Topics: networking; threads; design patterns

Notes:

• class notes (client-server networking)

Examples:

• knock knock server and clients

Notes:

• class notes (threads)

Examples:

• multithreaded knock knock server and clients

• class notes (strategy, observer)

Supplementary Reading: Horstmann section 5.2 (patterns in general), section 5.4 (strategy pattern)

Week 11: 11/8-11/12

Topics: design patterns

• class notes (risk, observer)

Supplementary Reading: Horstmann section 5.3 (observer pattern)

• class notes (observer, MVC)

• class notes (MVC, iterator)

Examples:

• iterator examples

Supplementary Reading: Horstmann section 5.1 (iterator pattern)

Week 12: 11/15-11/19

Topics: code review

• class notes (risk code review)

• class notes (networked/local flip design)

• class notes (risk code review)

Week 13: 11/22-11/26

Topics: more with threads

Notes:

• class notes (advanced threads - mutual exclusion and synchronization)
• ThreadedKnockKnockServer.java, ServerThread.java (thread handles shutting down server)

Week 14: 11/29-12/3

Topics: more with threads; more design patterns

• class notes (advanced threads - mutual exclusion and synchronization)

Examples:

• multithreaded knock knock server with joke submission and automatic joke backup, plus clients

• class notes (design patterns - adapter, facade, proxy, composite)

Notes:

• class notes (design patterns - end of composite, decorator, factory)

Week 15: 12/6-12/10

Topics: putting it all together

Notes:

• class notes (putting it all together)

Notes:

• class notes (Subway design alternatives)

• class notes (iterating, GPXCleaner, grand recap with tips)

Reading Period: 12/11-12/13

Exams: 12/14-12/17

• exam information

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