COSC3331: Object-Oriented Programming and Design

Section A: Fall 1999-2000
Instructor: Richard Paige
Office: CCB 250
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 3:30-4:30 pm or by appointment.

Recent course news in reverse chronological order

Exam grades and unofficial final grades are available using courseInfo. The exact syntax you will have to use to access your grades is:

   courseInfo 3331 1999-00 F

General Links

Course outline in HTML (click here for a Postscript version).
Tentative lecture schedule, including suggested readings
Course policies
Eiffel@York WWW page
OO References
Electronic submission instructions.

Assignments

Assignment 1 (Acrobat, HTML)
Solution hints and general comments on Assignment 1.
Assignment 2 (Acrobat, HTML)

Project Materials

Project Specification (Postscript, PDF, HTML)
Notes on preparing a design document.

The project will be marked in terms of: your design document (25%), correctness of your code (40%), testing (20%), user manual (10%), internal comments (5%). Correctness includes good use of require and ensure clauses, as well as class invariants.

Lecture Notes, Tests, Exams, and Marks

All slides used in lectures are available in /cs/course/3331 on Ariel.
You can check your marks on Ariel by using courseInfo 3331.
Object-Oriented Programming in Eiffel, an on-line book on Eiffel by Rob Rist. This is a browsable HTML revised edition of Rist's text that was originally published by Prentice-Hall. It is a thorough introduction to Eiffel programming.
Eiffel Object-Oriented Programming is an online version of a book by John Tyrrell which is now out of print.

The midterm test is Wednesday, October 27 in class. It will be 80 minutes long, closed book and notes. It will cover everything up to the end of class on October 20 (but there will be no questions on STORABLE).

You can find sketch solutions to the midterm here.

The final exam is Thursday, Dec 16 from 3.30-6.30 in SLH F (Stedman F). Please check with the registrar (or check the York WWW page) to ensure that this information is correct.

To see recommended readings for the exam, check out the schedule. It lists readings week-by-week. Roughly speaking, the exam will cover Chapters 1-16. I do not expect you to know the notation used for ADTs in the book; use the notation in the lecture slides. There will be no questions on iContract or external features. The BON language is fair game for the exam. A good way to review for the final exam is to do as many questions as you can from the textbook.

Course Links

ISE Home Page
Undergraduate Calendar for 3000-level courses
Input-output and files in Eiffel
Some notes on how to do simple compilation and execution using ebench. See the ebench manual, available on the Eiffel@York page, for lots more gory detail.

Last Updated: 21/12/1999 (R. Paige)