Information now current for fall 2011.

Prerequisite: Comp 271

Key information

• Class time: Fall 2011, Mon 19:00-21:30, LT-412
• Location: Room LT-412 (Linux Lab), Water Tower Campus
• Office hour: Mon 21:30-22:00 in LT-412 and Thu 15:00-16:00 in LT-531w
• Grading (tentative): 45% tests, 50% projects & presentations, 5% participation
• Official course description

Key resources

• Discussion group (mandatory subscription!)
• Blackboard site for this course
• GitHub code repository for this course
• External references
• My previous version of this course
• Ground rules
• Academic calendar
• Library resources

Outline

• Object-oriented programming in C# (3 weeks)
• language mechanisms
• TDD
• VCS
• Object-oriented modeling (3 weeks)
• process
• UML notation
• archetypes and colors
• Design principles and patterns (6 weeks)
• SOLID
• patterns from HFDP
• Concurrent programming (3 weeks)
• threads
• sharing
• events/Observer pattern revisited/GUIs

Recommended supplementary texts and other resources

• Clark
• Gamma et al.
• Griffiths et al.
• Hejlsberg et al.
• Mulchrone
• Tarr
• OO Design
• Wagner