Course: EECS 2030 3.0 Advanced Object Oriented Programming
Course Webpage: moodle.yorku.ca and
www.eecs.yorku.ca/course/2030
Term: Fall 2015
This course continues the separation of concern theme introduced in all of its three predecessors (the legacy course
EECS1020, or the new EECS1021, EECS1022). While EECS1021/1022 focuses on the client concern, this course focuses on the concern of the implementer. Hence, rather than using an API (Application Programming Interface) to build an application, the student is asked to implement a given API. Topics include implementing classes (utilities/non-utilities, delegation within the class definition, documentation and API generation, and implementing contracts), aggregations (implementing aggregates versus compositions and implementing collections), inheritance hierarchies (attribute visibility, overriding methods, abstract classes versus interfaces, inner classes); generics; building graphical user interfaces with an emphasis on the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern; recursion; searching and sorting (including quick and merge sorts); linked lists; and stacks and queues. The coverage also includes a few design patterns.Prerequisites: General prerequisites; EECS 1020 or EECS 1021 or EECS 1022 or EECS 1720 3.0
Course Credit Exclusions: EECS 1030 and ITEC 2620
Instructor: Steven Castellucci
Office: Lassonde Building, office 3048
Email: steven_c@yorku.ca
Office hours: Mondays, 13:00-14:00
Lectures: Lassonde Building, Lecture Hall B, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 13:00-14:30
Lab 1: Lassonde Building 1004 and 1006, Mondays, 14:00-15:30
Lab 2: Lassonde Building 1004 and 1006, Tuesdays, 16:00-17:30
Topic 1: Non-static features: UML diagrams, memory diagrams, this keyword, constructor, accessor and mutator, equals, hashCode, toString, compareTo, tests, class invariant, Javadoc
Topic 2: Aggregation and composition: UML diagrams, memory diagrams, == versus equals, defensive copying in composition, aliasing, shallow copying, deep copying, tests
Topic 3: Inheritance: UML diagrams, memory diagrams, which features are inherited, subclass constructors, overriding methods, super keyword, contracts in inheritance hierarchies, final, abstract classes, interfaces, tests, Javadoc
Topic 4: Concurrent programming: java.lang.Thread, starting, pausing, interrupting, joining, application of aggregation and inheritance tests (and their limitations) [This topic is optional and will be presented at the end of the course if time permits.]
Topic 5: Event-driven programming: application of aggregation and inheritance
Topic 6: Recursion: examples of recursivemethods, implementation of recursive methods, binary search, merge/quick sort, proving (informal) termination and correctness, solving recurrence relations, big-O (informal proofs)
Topic 7: Linked lists: implementation of singly linked list(size, contains, addFirst, add, get, remove), implementation of doubly linked list, implementation of Iterator, application of recursion, big-O (informal proofs)
Topic 8: Stacks and queues: precondition, postcondition, class invariants (informal proofs), applications, implementation using arrays and List, big-O (informal proofs)
Topic 9: Binary trees: implementation: array and linked, application of recursion
Absolute Java, 5th or 6th edition, by Savitch and Mock. Published by Pearson.
The final grade of the course will be based on the items below, with the weights indicated. The weights will not be adjusted, except to accommodate missed tests as outlined below. In addition, no "extra credit" assignments will be provided. A request to re-grade a test submission must be provided to the specified TA within one week of receiving the original grade.
| Test 1 | 10% |
| Test 2 | 20% |
| Test 3 | 25% |
| Test 4 | 25% |
| Test 5 | 20% |
Grading: The final grade for the course is obtained by combining the scores of the tests and converting this total to a letter grade according to the following table.
| ≥ 90 | ≥ 80 | ≥ 75 | ≥ 70 | ≥ 65 | ≥ 60 | ≥ 55 | ≥ 50 | ≥ 40 | < 40 |
| A+ | A | B+ | B | C+ | C | D+ | D | E | F |
Missed tests: Students with a documented reason for missing a test, such as illness, compasionate grounds, etc., will have the weight of the missed test shifted. For Test 1, the weight will be shifted to Test 2. For all other tests, the weight will be shifted to a make up test held during the exam period. This make up test will cover all the material presented in the course.
The only accepted documentation for missing a test due to illness is a completed Attending Physician's Statement. However, once a student begins writing a test, the weight of that test will not be shifted for any reason. Thus, if a student is not feeling well, it is recommended that the student not attend the test, seek the advice of a physician, and submit a completed Attending Physician's Statement to the instructor as soon as possible.
During tests, students are expected to do their own work. Looking at someone else's work during the test, talking during the test, using aids not permitted (such as a phone) during the test, and impersonation are all examples of academically dishonest behaviour. Students are expected to read the Senate Policy on Academic Honesty.
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