Course Schedule
The following publications are referred to on
the schedule below:
- Bloch
- Joshua Bloch, Effective Java, Addison-Wesley, 2001. An excellent
book of programming tips particularly relevant to Java.
- Crawford
- William Crawford and Jonathan Kaplan, J2EE Design
Patterns, O'Reilly, 2003. You can access this book online at
http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/0596004273
or by going to the Library's page for finding books, selecting
Safari Books and then searching for this book.
- Gamma
- Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson
and John Vlissides, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable
Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, 1995. A classis,
oftern referred to in the literature as the Gang of Four book, or
GoF for short.
- Goetz
- Brian Goetz, Java Concurrency in Practice,
Addison-Wesley, 2006.
- Jia
- Xiaoping Jia, Object-Oriented Software Development Using Java, 2nd edition,
Addison-Wesley, 2003.
- Lea
- Doug Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2000.
- Sept. 6: Software engineering principles, Java intro
- Readings
- Jia, Chapter 1, 3, 4.1-4.4.6
- Examples
- HelloWorld.java
- HelloFromVenus.java
- Homework 1: First Sip of
Java
- Sept. 11: Swing, Java Strings
- Readings
- Jia, 4.4.8-4.5
- Examples
- Hello with GUI
- Hello from Venus with GUI
- Sept. 13: Java Exceptions, Classes and Inheritance
- Readings
- Jia 4.4-4.7, chapter 5
- Homework 2: Postcard maker
- Starter project
- Sept. 18: Interfaces
- Sept. 20: Preconditions, postconditions and invariants
- Readings
- Jia 6.1-6.2
- Readings
- Jia 6.3.1-6.3.2
- Examples
- Dog.java
- Barker.java
- Biter.java
- Wagger.java
- NiceDog.java
- MeanDog.java
- Homework 3: Polynomial
- Polynomial.java
- Sept. 25: Mountain Day!
- Sept. 27: Specificaitons and inheritance,
Testing introduction
- Readings
- Jia, 6.3-6.4
- JUnit
Test Infected: Programmers Love Writing Tests
- Homework 4: Unit
testing - due date changed to Friday, Oct. 5 at 5:00 PM
- Oct. 2: Unit testing
- Readings: None
- Oct. 4: .equals, immutability
- Readings
- Bloch, pages 63-70
- Oct. 11: Identifying classes, class diagrams
- Readings
- Jia, 2.1-2.2
- Homework 5: Identifying classes
- Slides
- Monopoly
rules
- Class diagram
developed in class
- Oct. 15-19: Take home midterm
- Sample midterm questions
- Sample midterm answers
- Oct. 16: Sequence diagrams
- Readings
- Jia, 2.3.1, 2.5.3
- Slides
- Oct. 18: Discuss project ideas, Singleton pattern, Inheritance vs. composition
- Readings
- Jia 7.1-7.2.1
- Project assignment: description
- Oct. 23: Template Method pattern, Programming to interfaces
- Readings
- Jia 7.2.2-7.2.3
- Oct. 25: Strategy pattern
- Readings
- Jia 7.2.4
- Project assignment: existing system design
- Oct. 30: Strategy and Factory patterns
- Readings
- Jia 7.4
- Nov. 1: Observer pattern
- Readings
- Jia 8.1, 8.3.4
- Examples
- ThermometerWithMVC.jar
- Example demonstrating the Model-View-Controller
architecture. The model is the thermometer. The model has 2
listeners: the MercuryView and the DigitalView. There are
also 2 controllers: the text field for changing the
temperature and the menu to select scale. This jar file
contains the source and class files.
- Project assignment: design of extensions
- Nov. 6: Controllers
- Readings
- Crawford, Chapter 3 through section 3.3.2
- Nov. 8: Use Case Controllers
- Slides
- Nov. 13: UML state diagrams, State pattern
- Readings
- Jia 2.3.2
- Gamma 305-314
- Project assignment: phase 1 code
- Nov. 15: Design presentations
- Nov. 20: Concurrency introduction
- Readings
- Jia 11.1
- Examples
- Example
with a working cancel button
- Example
with a controller that enables and disabls buttons
- Project assignment: phase 2 code
- Nov. 27:Synchronization
- Readings
- Jia 11.2.1-11.2.2
- Slides
- Example 1 - Bank Demo using Synchronization
- Account.java
- race condition occurs if withdraw and deposit are not synchronized
- AccountListener.java
- BankDemo.java
- Depositer.java
- Withdrawer.java
- Example 2 - Bank Demo using Wait/Notify
- Account.java
- withdraw waits if it would result in a negative balance;
deposit notifies
- Withdrawer.java
- All other classes are the same as in Example 1.
- Nov. 29: Deadlock
- Readings
- Goetz, pages 205-214
- Slides
- Minilab 1 Handout:
Starting and stopping threads
- Minilab 1 Eclipse project
- Dec. 4: Minilab day
- Minilab 2 Handout:
Race Conditions
- Minilab 2 Eclipse project
- Minilab 3 Handout:
Race Conditions
- Minilab 3 Eclipse project
- Dec. 6: Multi-threaded servers
- Readings
- Goetz, Chapters 1 and 2
- Slides
- Project assignment: Final code
- Minilab 4 Handout:
Multi-threaded servers
- Minilab 4 Eclipse project
- Dec. 11: Project demo
