Information now current for fall 2011.

Prerequisite: Comp 313/488

Audience

Are you an enthusiastic programmer looking for new challenges? Did you enjoy Comp 313/488 (Intermediate Object-Oriented Development) and want to take things to the next level? If so, then this completely redesigned version of Comp 373 (Objects, Frameworks, and Patterns)/Comp 473 (Object-Oriented Programming) offered in Fall 2011 might be just what you are looking for.

Topics

Based on the foundation acquired in Comp 313/488, Comp 373/473 studies cutting-edge topics, such as

• introduction to the Scala language
• advanced language mechanisms: pattern matching, traits, and closures
• implementation of object-oriented languages
• concurrency: threads, actors, and software transactional memory (STM)
• domain-specific languages
• lightweight containers and dependency injection
• introspection, class loaders, and byte-code manipulation
• aspect-oriented programming
• language-oriented programming/MPS

Key information

• Class time: Fall 2011, Thursday, 16:15-18:45
• 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

Required main text

Recommended supplementary texts

Programming Scala, 1st Edition
By: Dean Wampler; Alex Payne
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Pub. Date: September 15, 2009
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-596-15595-7