CS 680 Object Oriented Design

CS 680 Object Oriented Design
Ethan Bolker
Spring, 2003

This is the home page for CS680 - located on the net at www.cs.umb.edu/~eb/680 and on our unix system in directory /home/eb/680, henceforth referred to as $CS680.

Course Description

   This course addresses principles, techniques and tools for the
   object-oriented modeling, design, implementation, and testing of
   contemporary software applications. Topics include UML, use cases,
   design patterns, graphical user interface programming, application
   frameworks, and refactoring.  Significant programming projects will
   use Java and at least one other object-oriented language.

This is not a course in object-oriented programming. You are all experienced programmers, and can learn any new language or language feature on your own. But you have not yet had significant experience at UMass designing applications. That will be our focus. But there is significant programming in this course - you will implement your designs, some in Java and some in C++. Arrange your life to allow yourself the time it will take to write the programs. You cannot succeed in this course (or in the software world) just by reading books and doing well on exams. You are learning a craft.

Prerequisites

You may not take this course until you have successfully completed CS650 (compilers). No exceptions.

Grading

There will be several programming assignments (including a significant final project), design documents, analyses of readings, a midterm, and (probably) a final exam. The programming will account for approximately 2/3 of your final grade.

You must earning a B or better in this course in order to take take the year long cs681-683 software engineering sequence next year.

One sure way to derail your career at UMass is to cheat. Learning from others is necessary and appropriate. Stealing their work instead of doing your own is not. I am repeatedly surprised when students do not understand this, pay no attention to this warning, and thus fail the course. For more on this serious topic, see http://www.cs.umb.edu/~eb/honesty.html

Exams

Texts

Xiaoping Jia, Object-oriented Software Development Using Java: principles, patterns and frameworks. , Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-35084-X. The second edition is the current one. I think a fair amount has changed since the first edition, so a second hand copy of the first editiom will probably not do. The Java source code for the examples in this text is available at http://se.cs.depaul.edu/Java/source.html.
Stanley B. Lippman and Josée Lajoie, C++ Primer, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1998. ISBN: 0-201-82470-1. Universally recognized as a good book to learn C++ from.
Martin Fowler, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN: 0201485672.

These texts are available at the bookstore in a single package that saves you some money when compared to the cost of purchasing them separately. Of course used copies will be cheaper. I don't know whether Amazon does better than the bookstore.

Syllabus

See the syllabus and schedule as they evolve.

Assignments

My solution to the elevator simulation problem: $CS680/simulator/elevator. The j2h and javadoc are up one directory.

Useful Links

Source code for programs in Jia: http://se.cs.depaul.edu/Java/source.html.
The Java API.
Sun Java tutorial.

Kent Beck on CRC cards.

A CRC card tutorial >

Accommodations

Section 504 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 offers guidelines for curriculum modifications and adaptations for students with documented disabilities. If applicable, students may obtain adaptation recommendations from the Ross Center for Disability Services, M-1-401, (617-287-7430). The student must present these recommendations and discuss them with each professor within a reasonable period, preferably by the end of Drop/Add period.