COMP SCI 2OO3 Object Oriented Programming - Topics and Times

Classes

 

Tuesdays	9:30 - 10:20	ABB 162
Wednesdays	9:30 - 10:20	ABB 162
Fridays	9:30 - 10:20	ABB 162

Tentative schedule: (downloads accessible only within mcmaster.ca domain)

• 0. Introduction (Week 1); see also Chapter 1 of Liskov
• 1. Objects (Weeks 1, 2) see also Chapter 2 of Liskov
• 2. Abstraction (Weeks 3, 4) see also Chapters 3, 5, and 6 of Liskov
  • IntSet.java (using UTF-8 Unicode, make sure your editor understands this, otherwise the comments will appear as garbage)
• 3. Exceptions (Week 5) see also Chapter 4 of Liskov.
  • StackExample.java
• 4. Hierarchy (Weeks 6, 7) see also Chapters 7 and 8 of Liskov
• 5. Testing (Week 8) see also Chapter 10 of Liskov
• 6. Design (Weeks 9, 10) see also Chapters 9, 13, 14, 15 of Liskov and the book of Gamma et al.
• 7. Concurrency (Weeks 11, 12, 13)

Tutorial and Lab Sessions 

Tuesdays

11:30 - 12:20

ABB 162 (tutorials)   ITB 237 (labs)

Tentative schedule; check again for rooms:

• 13 January, ITB 237: Lab on Java with Unix command line
• 20 January, ITB 237: Lab on subversion with Unix command line
• 27 January, ABB 162: Tutorial on preconditions, postconditions, invariants
• 3 February, ABB 162: Tutorial on loop invariants
• 10 February, ABB 162: Tutorial on class invariants
• 24 February, ABB 162: Tutorial on data abstraction
• 3 March, ITB 237: Lab on javadoc
• 10 March, ABB 162: Discussion of midterm
• 17 March, ITB 237: Lab on jUnit with Unix command line
• 24 March: ABB 162: Tutorial on design patterns
• 31 March, ITB 237: Lab on Netbeans
• 7 April, ABB 162: Discussion of previous exams

Computer Lab

Lab in ITB 238 is available during opening hours of ITB, which are:

 

Monday through Thursday	7:30 - 23:00
Fridays	7:30 - 21:00
Saturdays and Sundays	10:00 - 22:00
Holidays	closed

Midterm Exam

• Friday, 27 February 2009, in class, 50 min, closed book

Final Examination

• date and time TBA
• 3 hours, closed book
• All topics of the course will be covered. In particular, you should be able to write specifications, to read specifications, and to implement and test according to specifications. You may need to write short pieces of Java code. You need to be aware of all design principles that are discussed in class.