Lecture and Reading Schedule

CS 4773 Object-Oriented Systems - Fall 2009
The University of Texas at San Antonio

All readings are assumed to be completed before the start of each lecture.

Lecture 1 - Wednesday, August 26

Course Introduction; Quiz #1

Lecture 2 - Friday, August 28

The Object-Oriented Paradigm
Read: Preface and Chapter 1

Lecture 3 - Monday, August 31

Review of UML
Read: Chapter 2

Lecture 4 - Wednesday, September 2

Limitations of Traditional Object-Oriented Design
Read: Chapters 3, 4

Lecture 5 - Friday, September 4

Introduction to Course Projects; Requirements Analysis; Use Case Diagrams; Activity Diagrams; Quiz #2

(No Lecture) - Monday, September 7 - Labor Day Holiday

Lecture 6 - Wednesday, September 9

Introduction to Design Patterns
Read: Introduction to Part III, and Chapter 5

Lecture 7 - Friday, September 11

The Facade Pattern; Project Status Meeting (Scrum); Quiz #3
Read: Chapter 6

Lecture 8 - Monday, September 14

The Adapter Pattern
Read: Chapter 7

Lecture 9 - Wednesday, September 16

The New Approach to Object-Oriented Design
Read: Chapter 8

Lecture 10 - Friday, September 18

The Strategy Pattern; Quiz #4 (take home)
Read: Chapter 9

Lecture 11 - Monday, September 21

The Bridge Pattern; Inner Classes
Read: Chapter 10

Lecture 12 - Wednesday, September 23

The Abstract Factory Pattern
Read: Chapter 11

Lecture 13 - Friday, September 25

Thinking in Patterns; Quiz #5
Read: Chapters 12, 13

Lecture 14 - Monday, September 28

Principles of Design Patterns
Read: Chapter 14

Lecture 15 - Wednesday, September 30

Tools for Coping with Variation
Read: Chapters 15, 16

Lecture 16 - Friday, October 2

GUI Programming; Quiz #6

Lecture 17 - Monday, October 5

The Decorator Pattern
Read: Chapter 17

Lecture 18 - Wednesday, October 7

The Observer Pattern; Class Presentations; Midterm Review
Read: Chapter 18

Friday, October 9

Midterm Exam

Lecture 19 - Monday, October 12

Midterm Postpartum

Lecture 20 - Wednesday, October 14

Model View Controller
Read: Java BluePrints Model-View-Controller

Lecture 21 - Friday, October 16

Iterators; Quiz #7 (take home)

Lecture 22 - Monday, October 19

The Visitor Pattern

Lecture 23 - Wednesday, October 21

The Template Method Pattern
Read: Chapter 19

Lecture 24 - Friday, October 23

Factories and Singletons
Read: Introduction to Part VII, and Chapters 20, 21

Lecture 25 - Monday, October 26

The Object Pool Pattern; Quiz #8
Read: Chapter 22

Lecture 26 - Wednesday, October 28

The Factory Method Pattern
Read: Chapters 23, 24

Lecture 27 - Friday, October 30

Effective Java

Lecture 28 - Monday, November 2

Java Generics and Wildcards; Quiz #9

In Class Demos - Wednesday, November 4

Lecture 29 - Friday, November 6

Object-Oriented Type Systems Theory

Lecture 30 - Monday, November 9

Object-Oriented Type Systems Theory (continued); Quiz #10

Lecture 31 - Wednesday, November 11

Garbage Collection

Lecture 32 - Friday, November 13

Weak and Soft References

Lecture 33 (See slides posted on slideshare; and watch the talk itself!) - Monday, November 16

Introduction to Scala
Read: A Scala Tutorial for Java Programmers, by Michel Schinz, Philipp Haller

Lecture 34 - Wednesday, November 18

IDEA Survey; Covariance/Contravariance Revisited
Read: Scala By Example, by Martin Odersky

Lecture 35 - Friday, November 20

Mix-in Inheritance in Scala

Lecture 36 - Monday, November 23

Mix-in Inheritance in Scala (continued); Quiz #11

Lecture 37 - Wednesday, November 25

Making Constructs in Scala

(No Lecture) - Friday, November 27 - Thanksgiving Holiday

Lecture 38 - Monday, November 30

Refactoring in Eclipse

Project Presentations - Wednesday, December 2

Project source code and executable is due by the end of the day

Final Review - Friday, December 4

Read: Chapter 25

Final - Monday, December 14

1:30pm - 4:00pm (Location TDB)