SE 450 Object-Oriented Software Development
Summary
This course will cover the essential
principles of object-oriented design and implementation. Some of the topics we
will discuss include:
- Basic
techniques of object-oriented analysis and design, including: use cases,
design scenarios, abstraction, specification, and refactoring;
- Techniques
and principles of object-oriented implementation, including
design-by-contract, defensive programming, and iterative and incremental
development;
- Unified
Modeling Language (UML) design artifacts: class diagrams
and sequence diagrams;
- Coding
standards and practices, including internal and external documentation,
code readability, and elements of effective Java style;
- Unit
and integrated testing;
- Developing
a working vocabulary of design patterns and their implementation; and
- Use of appropriate tools for designing,
documenting, building, and testing programs.
The course will consist of lectures, reading
and homework assignments, mid-term and final
exams, and an individual final project. Java will be
used for all source code examples, homework assignments, and exams.
Course Goals
This course has three broad objectives:
-
Introduce the student to a well-defined development process, including its
'best practices' and its artifacts;
- Introduce
the student to some common tools used in software development; and
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Improve the student's Java language and programming knowledge.
Upon successful completion of this course,
the student should be able to:
- Understand
and properly apply object-oriented design techniques and produce
appropriate UML design artifacts;
- Understand
and apply iterative and incremental development and refactoring;
- Produce
documented, readable, and maintainable source code conforming to basic
coding standards and practices;
- Write
effective unit and integration tests for programs;
- Understand
and apply a set of design patterns;
-
Use effectively program design, build, and testing tools; and
- Demonstrate
improved overall Java programming skills.
Texts
Recommended:
- Object Oriented Software Development Using Java, Second Edition, Xiaoping Jia. Addison-Wesley,
2002.
- Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented
Design, Alan Shalloway
and James R. Trott, Addison-Wesley, 2001.
Also of interest:
- Applied Java Patterns, Stephen Stelting and
Olav Maassen, Sun Microsystems Press/Prentice
Hall, 2002.
- UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling
Language, Third Edition, Martin
Fowler (with Kendall Scott). Addison-Wesley, 2004.
- The Unified
Process Explained, Kendall Scott,
Addison-Wesley, 2002.
- Design Patterns, Erich
Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides.
Addison-Wesley, 1995.
Grading
Your coursework is the means used to determine
your knowledge and understanding of the material presented in the course. Your
grade will be computed based on your scores on homework assignments, the final
project, and the mid-term and final exams according to the following
percentages:
Coursework
|
Grade Proportion
|
Homework assignments
|
20%
|
Mid-term exam
|
25%
|
Final exam
|
25%
|
Final project
|
30%
|
Total
|
100%
|
Grades will be computed
using the following scale:
If the final numeric grade is less than:
|
and greater than or equal to:
|
the final letter grade is:
|
-
|
93
|
A
|
93
|
90
|
A-
|
90
|
87
|
B+
|
87
|
83
|
B
|
83
|
80
|
B-
|
80
|
77
|
C+
|
77
|
73
|
C
|
73
|
70
|
C-
|
70
|
67
|
D+
|
67
|
63
|
D
|
63
|
60
|
D-
|
60
|
-
|
F
|
Prerequisites
- CSC 383/416 or equivalent course on data structures
and algorithms.
- CSC
224 (or 211 and 212) or equivalent Java programming experience.
Homework and Exam Policies
All assignments must be submitted electronically
through Course On-Line (COL) and are due by 6:00 PM (9:30 PM for DL students) on
the assignment due date. Note that an assignment submitted at 6:01 PM (9:31 PM)
will be considered late. Assignment submission requirements will be provided
with each assignment. Assignments including documents may be in Microsoft Word
(.doc) format or Adobe PDF. For such assignments, any included figures must be
embedded directly within the document, not bundled separately.
Assignments will be graded on a PASS/LATE/FAIL
scale. Assignments submitted on-time and adequately addressing the assignment
problem will receive a grade of PASS (100%). Assignments received up to one week
after the submission deadline and adequately addressing the assignment problem
will receive a grade of LATE (50%). Assignments received later than one week
after the due date or inadequately addressing the assignment problem will
receive a grade of FAIL (0%).
There will be no
extra-credit assignments.
Both the mid-term and final exams will be
on-line. In-class and DL students will have identical access to the exams.
Therefore, there is no need for DL students to register in order to take the
exams. The mid-term exam is tentatively scheduled for week 5, though this may
move to week 6. The final will be available during week 11, final exams week.
This syllabus is subject to change as necessary during the quarter. If a change occurs, it will be thoroughly addressed during class, posted under Announcements in D2L and sent via email.
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