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Class Schedule

The class schedule is a guide to topics that will be discussed and when they will be discussed on a weekly basis. The week begins on a Tuesday before the co-curricular days and on a Thursday after the co-curricular days.

All slide sets are files. To save paper and ink, I suggest you do not print slides too far in advance and not before the course begins as changes may be made.

Week 1: September 9 & 11

Slides:

• Administrvia Not worth printing, just for introductory class, contains description of the on-line information
• Getting started with Eiffel − Example Eiffel programs are in case studies
• Classes: The Static Structure
• Objects
• Criteria for Modularity: Design rules and software construction principles to ensure modularity

Case studies:

• bank 5 – Compare system clusters with system directory structure
• twin study − Examine shallow and deep copy
• expanded study − Replacing a reference to an object with the object itself

Week 2: September 16 & 18

Slides:

• Agents & Tuples
• Abstract Data Type Documentation
• Design: Context and Principles
• Memory Management
• Genericity

Case studies:

• agents and tuples − passing functions and procedures inplementing assertions
• bank 1,    dictionary,    sparse matrix
• System developed for Report 1

Week 3: September 23 & 25 (Report 1 due)

Slides:

• Assertions − How to write correct programs and know it
• Stepwise refinement / top down design

Case studies:

• The system you worked on for report 1
• banks 1 to 5,    dictionary,    sparse matrix

Week 4: September 30 & October 2 (Report 2 due)

Slides:

• Design within a class
• Design by Contract

Case studies: See how assertions are used in programs

• The system you worked on for report 1
• banks 1 to 5,    dictionary,    sparse matrix
• testing with eSpec

Week 5: October 7 & 9 (Class test 1)

Slides:

• Exceptions
• Notes on Espec

Case studies:

• Use of exceptions in eSpec

Week 6: October 14 & 16

Slides:

• BON static model: See also links under BON on the resources page.
• Inheritance: What is it all about
• Inheritance: Polymorphism & dynamic types

Week 7: October 21 & October 23 (Report 3 due)

Slides:

• Inheritance: Adaptation
• Multiple & Repeated Inheritance
• Inheritance and uses design
• Inheritance and Design By Contract

Week 8: October 28 & November 4

Slides:

• Structural pattern Adapter
• Model View Controller pattern
• Design patterns
• Behavioural pattern Observer
• BON dynamic model

Case studies:

• adapter pattern,    bank 1, 2, 3 & 4
• Model-view-controller pattern 1    Model-view-controller 2 pattern
• observer 1 pattern    observer 2 pattern

Week 9: November 6 (Class Test 2) & 11

Slides:

• Global Objects
• Creational pattern Singleton

Case studies:

• Singleton pattern,    bank 4 & 5

Week 10: November 13 (Report 4 due) & 18

Slides:

• Structural pattern Composite
• Behavioural pattern Command
• Case study: Command Do-Undo
• Case study: interactive Multi-panel

Case studies:

• composite pattern,    command pattern,   

Week 11: November 20 & 25

Slides:

• Behavioural pattern Visitor
• Behavioural pattern Iterator

Case studies:

• Iterator pattern
• visitor 1 pattern,    visitor 2 pattern,   

Week 12: November 27 & December 4 (Report 5 due)

Slides:

• Structural pattern Decorator
• Behavioural pattern State

Case studies:

• decorator pattern
• state pattern

Subject to change.

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Background slides

• Testing
• Reusability
• Finding Classes
• Bottom Up Design & ADTs
• On the Correspondence of Data Structures
• BON Development Process

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Time permitting some of the following may be done

• Structural pattern Facade
• Behavioural pattern Master Slave
• Creational pattern Abstract Factory
• Creational pattern Builder
• Creational pattern Prototype