Some Key Dates

19 Jan (Week 1 Monday): no class (MLK Holiday)

03 Feb (Week 3): project 1 due Wednesday night

15 Feb (Week 5): quiz 1

19 Feb (Week 5): project 2 due Friday night

22 Feb (Week 6): test 1

08 Mar (Week 8): no class (Spring Break 2)

22 Mar (Week 10): quiz 2
26 Mar (Week 10): project 3 due Friday night

29 Mar (Week 11): test 2

10 Apr (Week 12) project 4 UML extended state diagram due (can delay until April 17)

17 Apr (Week 13) project 4 list of tests due

01 May (Week 15) project 4 due Saturday night

03 May (Week 16) test 3 - final exam, 5-7pm

Preliminary Schedule 

(Based on Dr. Yacobellis' Spring, 2020, COMP 413 Schedule – Subject to Change)

Previous version (Spring 2020)

Week 1: 18 January - No class, Martin Luther King Holiday

Week 2: 25 January

Sessions

• organizational matters
• introduction: instructor; no TA for Spring 2019
• course objectives
• course texts
• course roadmap (see the last page of this document)
• Piazza discussion forum (mandatory subscription – link through Sakai)
• how to get help
• prerequisites and review topics: 271 313 overview
• motivation, including embedded systems
• brief overview of batch versus event-based programming
• requirements
• functional: y = f(x)
• nonfunctional: additional properties of f, e.g.
• testability
• most important nonfunctional requirement
• allows testing whether functional requirements are met
• good architecture often happens as a side-effect (APPP pp. 36-38)
• performance
• scalability
• e.g. performance for large data sets: asymptotic order of complexity 
  (big-Oh) in terms of input size n
• reliability
• maintainability
• static versus dynamic NFRs
• discussion of projects 1 and 2
• course software with demo
• prerequisite assessment

Reading/Podcasts

• Object-Oriented Programming Using Java (OOPUJ) chapters 1, 2.1, 2.2, 3
• OO Introduction; UML Class Diagrams & Syntax; Inheritance & Method Overriding
• SE (Software Engineering) Radio episode 1 on patterns
• Full list of all SE Radio episodes: http://www.se-radio.net/feed

Sessions

• announcements
• data structures
• linear vs. nonlinear
• position-based vs. policy-based (see also here)
• performance
• tying data structure choices to requirements
• data abstraction
• addressing: pointers, references
• aggregation (product types): structs, records
• example: node in a linked list
• variation (sum types): tagged unions, multiple implementations of an interface
• example: mutable set abstraction
• add element
• remove element
• check whether an element is present
• check if empty
• how many elements
• several possible implementations
• reasonable: binary search tree, hash table, bit vector (for small underlying domains)
• less reasonable: array, linked list
• see also here
• group activity: problem 4 on prerequisite assessment

Reading/Podcasts

• OOPUJ chapters 4, 5
• Object Roles and Polymorphism; Method Overloading
  

Homework

• Project 1 due Wednesday night, February 3
  

Week 4: 8 February

Sessions

• announcements
• project 1/software installation check-up
• Quiz 1 next week
• discussion of project 2
• basics of object-oriented programming up to genericity (Generics)
• Inheritance and Composition
• Interfaces
• Abstract Classes
• More on Test-Driven Development
• JUnit Annotations, test methods, and examples

Reading/Podcasts

• OOPUJ chapter 6
• OO Software Analysis and Design
• SE Radio episode 2 on dependencies

Week 5: 15 February

Sessions

• Quiz 1: short quiz on first 2 SE Radio episodes, patterns and dependencies
• announcements
• test 1 roadmap on Sakai
• basics of object-oriented programming - through the rest of the online document
• Generic types
• Supplemental material: Java Collections, data structures, and Object-inherited methods (see course slides)
• Optional topic - Coad: modeling with UML and color: overview, book chapter
• reverse engineering JUnit tests (test 1 topic)
• introduction to Design Patterns
• Overview
• Factory method, Strategy, Visitor
• Resources
• tutorialspoint website
• Bob Tarr pdf slides on Sakai
• APPP Design Pattern references
• Factory: Chapter 29
• Strategy: Chapter 22
• Visitor: Chapter 35
• project 3 introduction (only if time)

Reading/Podcasts

• Bob Tarr pdf slide sets on Factory, Strategy, and Visitor Design Patterns
• Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# (APPP) chapters 1-3 and Design Patterns chapters as above
• Agile Practices; Extreme Programming Overview; Planning
• Factory, Strategy, and Visitor Design Patterns

Week 6: 22 February

Sessions

• test 1
• announcements
• project 3 team formation
• more Design Patterns
• Decorator and Composite
• Visitor revisited
• Resources
• tutorialspoint website
• Bob Tarr pdf slides on Sakai
• APPP Design Pattern references
• Decorator: part of Chapter 35
• Composite: Chapter 31
• Visitor: Chapter 35
• project 3
• Shapes interface and Visitor<Result> generic interface
• concrete Shapes: Circle, Rectangle, ...
• concrete Visitors: Draw, Size, and Bounding Box
• project 3 TODOs (Android Studio: Tools => View => TODO)
• project 3 Decorators: Outline, Stroke, Location, ...
• Android Canvas and Paint classes and online documentation
• Unit tests using Gradle and Mockito; the Fixtures class

Reading/Podcasts

• Bob Tarr pdf slide sets on Decorator, Composite, and Visitor Design Patterns
• APPP chapters 4-6 and Design Patterns chapters as above
• Testing; Refactoring; A Programming Episode
• Decorator, Composite, and Visitor Design Patterns
• SE Radio episode 167 on unit testing

Week 7: 1 March

Sessions

• announcements
• team members posted on Sakai and Piazza
• team repositories: cs413sp18teamNp3
• discussion of test 1
• continued project 3 detailed discussion
• more classes, including Fixtures
• Mokito "white box" unit tests (esp. for the Bounding Box Visitor)
• how to run the unit tests
• expressions and vexpressions Java examples - using a Visitor<Result> interface to visit arithmetic expressions
• coding guidelines
• UML diagrams and 30-minute in-class group activity
• create a UML class diagram for project 3 (hand-drawn is best)
• Submit (a picture of) the diagram plus a brief write up about how you did it on Sakai - one per group
• Agile development (if time)
• agile development principles
• MVP (Minimal Viable Product – low risk) versus BUFD (Big Up-Front Design – high risk)
• indirection: performance versus flexibility

Reading/Podcasts

• APPP chapters 13 & 14
• Overview of UML for C# Programmers; Working with Diagrams
• Mokito overview
• Android 4 App Development Essentials, Chapters 1-4, available here: http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Android_4_App_Development_Essentials
• Note: even though this reading describes installing and using Eclipse, we will use only Android Studio in this course

Week 8: 8 March - No class, Spring Break 2

Week 9: 15 March

Sessions

• announcements
• any remaining questions about project 3
• reminders: Quiz 2 next week (2 SE Radio podcasts), test 2 the following week
• principles of object-oriented programming: SOLID
• S - Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
• O - Open Closed Principle (OCP)
• L - Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
• I - Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)
• D - Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)
• References
• Uncle Bob's Principles of OOD
• Pablo's SOLID Software e-book
• SOLID Principles in C#
• SOLID and other basic object-oriented design principles ("SOLID + 2"): presentation
• overview
• extended overview by Uncle Bob with links to detailed articles
• information hiding/minimize coupling/Law of Demeter (Tarr p1-)
• favor composition over inheritance (Tarr p9-)
• Coad's rules (Tarr p22-)
• role-based design (Tarr p23-)
• dependency inversion principle/design with interfaces (Tarr p33-, Coad)
• open-closed principle (Tarr p40-)
• Liskov substitution principle (Tarr p51-)
• single-responsibility principle (cohesion part 1)
• interface segregation principle (cohesion part 2)
• package-level principles: cohesion and coupling
• acyclic dependencies
• Android example programs
• Android framework
• architecture
• overview
• activities and their lifecycle (scroll about 60% down)
• tutorials
• examples - search for "android-java"
• hello-android-java - notification
• HAXM (see recent post)
• creation of AVD
• roles of hg and Gradle
• simplebatch-android-java - scrollable text output
• functionality: scrollable 
• Android framework and activity life cycle
• preview of agile process
• simpledraw-android-java - drawing simple shapes based on lines

Reading/Podcasts

• Android 4 App Development Essentials, Chapters 5-8 
• APPP chapters 8-12 (SOLID: SRP, OCP, LSP, ISP, DIP)
• SE Radio episode 46 on refactoring - will be on Quiz 2