Course Syllabus

The table below gives the planned syllabus for the course. This syllabus is subject to change. When it becomes necessary to revise the schedule, then this page will be updated to reflect the changes.

The references in the readings are given in the bibliography below.

Dates Topics Readings Optional Readings
Jan. 13 Introduction Handouts, Course Web Site  
Jan. 15-17 Running Java and Exception Handling Running Java web page [Arnold-Gosling-Holmes00] Ch. 8, [Walrath-Campione99] Ch 1.
Jan. 17 Object-Orientation [Reil96] Ch. 1 [Booch94] Ch. 1-2, [Budd02] Ch. 1, [Cox-Novobilski91] Ch. 1-3, [Meyer97] Ch. 1-2
Jan. 20 No class (university holiday)    
Jan. 22-29 Objects and Classes (Calculator example code, other example code) [Reil96] Ch. 2 [Arnold-Gosling-Holmes00] Ch. 1-2, [Booch94] Ch. 3, [Budd02] Ch. 2-7, [Cox-Novobilski91] Ch. 4, [Liskov01] Ch. 1-2 and 5, [Meyer97] Ch. 3-8
Jan. 29-Feb. 3 Inheritance and Polymorphism (examples and the Calculator example) [Reil96] Ch. 5, [Walrath-Campione99] [Arnold-Gosling-Holmes00] Ch. 3-4, [Booch94] Ch. 4, [Budd02] Ch. 8-10, [Cox-Novobilski91] Ch. 5-6, [Horstmann-Cornell01], Ch. 4-9, [Liskov01] Ch. 7, [Meyer97] Ch. 14-16
Feb. 5 Review for Exam 1 [Reil96] Ch. 1-2 and 5, [Walrath-Campione99] [Arnold-Gosling-Holmes00] Ch. 1-4, [Booch94] Ch. 1-4, [Budd02] Ch. 1-10, [Cox-Novobilski91] Ch. 1-6, [Liskov01] Ch. 1-2, 5, and 7, [Meyer97] Ch. 1-6 and 14-16
Feb. 7 Exam 1 [Reil96] Ch. 1-2 and 5, [Walrath-Campione99] [Arnold-Gosling-Holmes00] Ch. 1-4, [Booch94] Ch. 1-4, [Budd02] Ch. 1-10, [Cox-Novobilski91] Ch. 1-6, [Liskov01] Ch. 1-2, 5, and 7, [Meyer97] Ch. 1-6 and 14-16
Feb. 10-12 Presentations of project inceptions (hw2) [Larman01] Ch. 4 Student project visions
Feb. 12 Form teams    
Feb. 14 Course Review and Planning    
Feb. 14-21 Inheritance and Polymorphism ( examples and the Calculator example) [Reil96] Ch. 5, [Walrath-Campione99] [Arnold-Gosling-Holmes00] Ch. 3-4, [Booch94] Ch. 4, [Budd02] Ch. 8-10, [Cox-Novobilski91] Ch. 5-6, [Horstmann-Cornell01], Ch. 4-9, [Liskov01] Ch. 7, [Meyer97] Ch. 14-16
Feb. 21 OOAD Overview [Larman01] Ch. 1-3 [Beck99], [Booch94] Ch. 2.1, [Budd02] Ch. 3, [Fowler00] Ch. 1-2, [Liskov01] Ch. 13, [Meyer97] Ch. 27
Feb. 21-24 Inception Phase [Larman01] Ch. 4 StickSync project documents
Feb. 26 Understanding Requirements [Larman01] Ch. 5 [Liskov01] Ch. 11, [Meyer97] Ch. 27
Feb. 26-28 Use-Case Model: Writing Requirements in Context [Fowler00] Ch. 3, [Larman01] Ch. 6,  
Mar. 3 Team work on requirements (hw3) [Larman01] Ch. 4  
Mar. 5 Course Review and Planning    
Mar. 5 Identifying Other Requirements [Larman01] Ch. 7  
Mar. 5 From Inception to Elaboration [Larman01] Ch. 8  
Mar. 7 Use-Case Model: Drawing System Sequence Diagrams [Fowler00] Ch. 5, [Larman01] Ch. 9 [Larman01] Ch. 13, [Meyer97] Ch. 27
Mar. 10 Domain Model: Visualizing Concepts [Fowler00] Ch. 4, [Larman01] Ch. 10  
Mar. 12 Review for Exam 2 [Fowler00] Ch. 1-3, [Larman01] Ch. 1-7 [Beck99], [Booch94] Ch. 2.1, [Budd02] Ch. 3, [Liskov01] Ch. 11 and 13, [Meyer97] Ch. 27, StickSync project documents
Mar. 14 Exam 2 [Fowler00] Ch. 1-3, [Larman01] Ch. 1-7 [Beck99], [Booch94] Ch. 2.1, [Budd02] Ch. 3, [Liskov01] Ch. 11 and 13, [Meyer97] Ch. 27, StickSync project documents
Mar. 17-Mar. 21 Spring Break, no class    
Mar. 24 Course Review and Planning    
Mar. 24 Domain Model: Visualizing Concepts [Fowler00] Ch. 4, [Larman01] Ch. 10  
Mar. 24-26 Domain Model: Adding Associations [Fowler00] Ch. 4, [Larman01] Ch. 11 [Reil96] Ch. 4 and 7
Mar. 28 Domain Model: Adding Atributes [Fowler00] Ch. 4, [Larman01] Ch. 12 [Reil96] Ch. 4
Mar. 31-Apr. 2 Basic OO Design [Fowler00] Ch. 4 and 11, [Larman01] Ch. 13-20 [Fowler00] Ch. 5 and pages 104-106, [Liskov01] Ch. 14, [Reil96] Ch. 2-3, [Wirfs-Brock-Wilkerson89]
Apr. 4 Team work on designs (hw8)    
Apr. 7-Apr. 9 Basic OO Design [Fowler00] Ch. 4 and 11, [Larman01] Ch. 13-20 [Fowler00] Ch. 5 and pages 104-106, [Liskov01] Ch. 14, [Reil96] Ch. 2-3, [Wirfs-Brock-Wilkerson89]
Apr. 11-14 Design by Contract with JML and JUnit [Beck-Gamma98], [Leavens-Baker-Ruby02] [Fowler00] pages 62-65, [Liskov01] Ch. 3-5 and 12, [Meyer97] Ch. 11, [Mitchell-McKim02]
Apr. 14-16 GRASP: More Patterns for Assigning Responsibilities [Larman01] Ch. 22 [Larman01] Ch. 21, [Reil96] Ch. 3
Apr. 18 Review for Exam 3 [Fowler00] Ch. 4 and 11, [Larman01] Ch. 10-20 [Fowler00] Ch. 5 and pages 104-106, [Liskov01] Ch. 14, [Reil96] Ch. 2-4 and 7, [Wirfs-Brock-Wilkerson89]
Apr. 21 Exam 3 [Fowler00] Ch. 4 and 11, [Larman01] Ch. 10-20 [Fowler00] Ch. 5 and pages 104-106, [Liskov01] Ch. 14, [Reil96] Ch. 2-4 and 7, [Wirfs-Brock-Wilkerson89]
Apr. 23 Course Review and Planning    
Apr. 23 GRASP: More Patterns for Assigning Responsibilities [Larman01] Ch. 22 [Larman01] Ch. 21, [Reil96] Ch. 3
Apr. 23-28 Designing Use-Case Realizations with GoF Design Patterns [Larman01] Ch. 23 [Gamma-etal95], [Liskov01] Ch. 15
Apr. 30 Design Patterns: Template Method, State, Command, Visitor, Decorator [Gamma-etal95] [Larman01] Ch. 34
May 2 Course Summary and Review    
May 2 Course Evaluations    
May 8 (Thurs.), 9:45-11:45 a.m. Team Design Presentations    

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Bibliography

[Arnold-Gosling-Holmes00]
Ken Arnold and James Gosling and David Holmes. The Java Programming Language Third Edition. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 2000.
[Beck99]
Kent Beck. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Addison-Wesley, Boston, Mass, 1999.
[Beck-Gamma98]
Kent Beck and Erich Gamma. Test Infected: Programmers Love Writing Tests. Java Report, 3(7):37-50, 1998. Online at: http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/testinfected/testing.htm
[Booch94]
Grady Booch. Object-Oriented Design: With Applications, Second Edition. Benjamin Cummings, New York, N.Y., 1994.
[Budd02]
Timothy Budd. An Introduction to Object-oriented Programming, Third edition. Addison-Wesley, Boston, Mass, 2002.
[Cox-Novobilski91]
Brad J. Cox and Andrew J. Novobilski. Object Oriented Programming: an Evolutionary Approach, Second edition. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass, 1991.
[Fowler00]
Martin Fowler with Kendall Scott. UML Distilled Second Edition: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language. Addison-Wesley Longman, Inc., Reading, MA, 2000. ISBN 020165783X.
[Gamma-etal95]
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley, Boston, MA, 1995. ISBN 0201633612.
[Horstmann-Cornell01]
Cay S. Horstmann and Gary Cornell. Core Java 2 Volume I -- Fundamentals. Sun Microsystems Press, Palo Alto, CA, 2001.
[Larman01]
Craig Larman. Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and the Unified Process, Second Edition. Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001. ISBN 0130925691.
[Leavens-Baker-Ruby02]
Gary T. Leavens, and Albert L. Baker, and Clyde Ruby. Preliminary Design of JML: A Behavioral Interface Specification Language for Java. Iowa State University, Department of Computer Science, TR98-06t, June 1998, revised December 2002. [Postscript] [PDF]
[Liskov01]
Barbara Liskov with John Guttag. Program Development in Java. Addison-Wesley, Boston, Mass, 2001.
[Meyer90]
Bertrand Meyer. Lessons from the Design of the Eiffel Libraries. Comm. ACM, 33(9):69-88 (Sept., 1990).
[Meyer97]
Bertrand Meyer. Object-oriented Software Construction, Second edition. Prentice Hall, New York, NY, 1997.
[Mitchell-McKim02]
Richard Mitchell and Jim McKim. Design by Contract by Example. Addison-Wesley, 2002.
[Reil96]
Arthur J. Reil. Object-Oriented Design Heuristics. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1996. ISBN 020163385X.
[Walrath-Campione99]
Kathy Walrath and Mary Campione. The JFC Swing Tutorial: A Guide to Constructing GUIs. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1999. Online at: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/index.html
[Wirfs-Brock-Wilkerson89]
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Brian Wilkerson. Object-Oriented Design: A Responsibility-Driven Approach. OOPSLA '89 Conference Proceedings, Norman Meyerowitz (editor), ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 24(10):71-75, Oct. 1989.

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Old Syllabi

Below are links to syllabi from previous offerings of this course.

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Course Content and Policies

The course's content and grading policy are described on separate web pages. See the links on the top left of this page.

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Last modified Tuesday, August 19, 2003.

This web page is for the Spring 2003 offering of Com S 362 at Iowa State University. The details of this course are subject to change as experience dictates. You will be informed of any changes. Please direct any comments or questions to Gary T. Leavens at leavens@cs-DOT-iastate-DOT-edu (after replacing -DOT- with `.').