COMP SCI 2OO3 Object Oriented Programming - Organization

Instructor

Dr. Emil Sekerinski, ITB 215
office hours: Mondays 9:30 - 10:30

Teaching Assistant

Prerequisites

• COMP SCI 2SC3 Imperative Programming and Basic Data Structures

Calendar Description

The object oriented approach to software: classes, objects, fields, methods; modelling and problem decomposition techniques using classes; concurrency, threads, synchronization, communication; inheritance; interface documentation; design documentation.

Required Software

• Subversion configuration management tool.
• • Downloadable book Version Control with Subversion from O'Reilly.
  • An article on Subversion for MacOS X.
• Java SE (Standard Edition), with documentation, for downloading.
  • K. Arnold, J. Gosling, D. Holmes The Java Programming Language, 4rd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2006. There is also an online copy available of the 3rd edition.
    The only brief introduction to Java, recommendable.
  • G. Bracha, J. Gosling, B. Joy, G. Steele. The Java Language Specification, 3nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2005. There is also an online copy.
    The definitive reference to Java; requires some knowledge about Java; only recommendable as a reference.
• jUnit testing framework
• ant build tool

Required Reading

• Course notes, available at the bookshop.
• B. Liskov, J. Guttag. Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design. Addison-Wesley, 2001.
  A recommendable book on general program development principles and their application with Java. Although the course is not strictly following this book, it further elaborates on several design issues and provides excellent background reading. Does not contain enough details about Java to be a Java reference, though.
• E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, J. Vlissides. Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
  The book on design patterns. Very well written, a must for every software developer.

Further Reading

• Daniel Zingaro. Invariants: A Generative Approach to Programming, College Publicationsm 2008).
  Written by a McMaster graduate, this is an excellent complement to the course notes on preconditions, postconditions, and invariants, using Java for illustration.
• D. Lea. Concurrent Programming in Java - Design Principles and Patterns, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2000.
  The most systematic book on concurrent programming with Java.
• Timothy Budd: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2002.
  An excellent comprehensive book about object-oriented programming, covering several languages. Goes in more detail than needed for the course. Suggested Reading:
  • Chapters 1 - 2
  • Chapters 4 - 5
  • Chapter 8
  • Chapters 10 - 12
  • Chapters 13 - 15 optional
  • Chapters 16 - 17
  • Chapter 18 optional
  • Chapter 19
  • Chapter 21
  • Chapter 24
• B. Meyer, Object-Oriented Software Construction, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall, 1998.
  Discusses everything there is about software design from an object-oriented viewpoint. A bit wordy, but probably the most convincing book for object-oriented design.
• Michael Blaha, James Rumbaugh. Object-Oriented Modeling and Design with UML, second edition, Prentice Hall, 2005, 477 pp.
  This is a very well-written book on oo modeling. For this course, mostly Part 1 (up to Chapter 9) is relevant. The first edition of the book (James Rumbaugh, Michael Blaha, William Lorensen, Frederick Eddy, William Premerlani. Object-Oriented Modeling and Design, Prentice Hall, 1991, 528 pp.) uses OMT instead of UML, but is still worth reading.

Evaluation

• Course work 30%, midterm test 10%, final exam 60%.
• Course work consists of 5 assignments each worth 6%.

Academic Dishonesty

Academic dishonesty consists of misrepresentation of deception or by other fraudulent means and can result in serious consequences, e.g. the grade of zero on all assignments, loss of credit with a notation on the transcript (notation reads: "Grade of F is assigned for academic dishonesty"), and/or suspension or expulsion from the university.

It is your responsibility to understand what constitutes academic dishonesty. For information on the various kinds of academic dishonesty please refer to the Academic Integrity Policy, specifially Appendix 3. The following illustrates only three forms of academic dishonesty:

• Submission of work that is fully or partly copied from someone else, or making your work available for copying to others.
• Submission of work that has been fully or partly obtained from other sources like the Internet.
• Copying or using unauthorized aids in tests and examinations.

All submitted assignments are always checked for similarities.