COMP SCI 2OO3 Object Oriented Programming - Outline

Goal

This course has two goals: one is to familiarize participants with an industrially relevant object-oriented development environment and to give sufficient opportunity to get "fluent" in one object-oriented programming language. The other goal of the course comes from the observation that many of the techniques and principles are indepenent from the programming language and enviroment and have a more universal value, for example those for robustness, testing, and modularization. The lectures will focus on those, the labs will cover current technology.

Topics (not necessarilly in order or presentation)

• The object-oriented approach to software development
• Programming in an integrated development environment (IDE)
• Modeling, the object – physical object relation
• Problem decomposition techniques using classes
  • Classes, objects, fields, methods
  • Interfaces and contracts
  • Subclasses, inheritance, overriding
  • Abstract classes
• Exception handling and robustness
• • Libraries and frameworks
  • Design Patterns
• Design notations
• Modularization in object-oriented languages
• GUI programming
• Documentation
• • Interface documentation
  • Design documentation
• Concurrency
  • Concurrency concepts
  • Threads and thread communication
• Testing
• Configuration Management
  • Concepts
  • Tools (subversion, CVS)