Tentative Schedule

Day-by day class materials

code

In-class code

slides

Power-point slides

The code examples are numbered by week and class of week. For example, code/example2_1 is the code example from Week 2, Day 1 (That is, Monday of Week 2).

Acknowledgement

The schedule for this class is adapted from Dr. Mark Hornick's rendition of the class a few years back. It will be updated throughout the quarter without markup.

Schedule

pp. 526-560  

Week	Day	Topics	Reading	Lab
1	1	Course Introduction Review: UML (inheritance, realization, composition, usage, aggregation, roles, multiplicity)	pp. x-xxxiiii pp. 1-35	Making a Smarter Bee Base Code: AngryBees.zip
	2	Inheritance issues Cohesion defined
	3	The Strategy Pattern Extension vs. Encapsulation Coupling defined
2	1	Strategy Pattern, continued The Simple Factory idiom The Factory Method pattern The Singleton Pattern & synchronizing threads in Java	See code examples from link at top of this page. pp. 109-167	Implementing the Strategy Pattern and Simple Factory Idiom in AngryBees
	2	Factory Pattern
	3	Factory Pattern
3	1	Multithreading in-depth	Tech Article: Threads in Swing (Older version, only available through the way-back machine) Concurrency in Swing. New, updated version. Although it does not contain a direct statement of the "single-thread rule", it describes the new WorkerThread class that is now part of the Java API (as of Java 6). Thread Synchronization (p. 1)	Prep reading: Object Locking Thread-safe collections
	2	Multithreading continued: Thread Synchronization
	3	Multithreading continued Sample Code: Feedback Survey
Merry Christmas
4	1	Singleton Garbage Collection Thread safety in the Singleton pattern	Forum Discussion: Singleton and Garbage Collection Documentation: Atomic operations in Java The Text: pp. 169-189 (Singleton) pp. 37-77 (Observer)	Singleton Event Logger
	2	Thread safety in the Singleton pattern Observer Pattern
	3	Observer Pattern continued
5	1	Posting events from a worker thread to the UI thread Java Observer interface, Observable class Review for Half Exam 1	Tech article: Invoking methods on the Event Dispatch Thread	GPS Observer
	2	Half Exam 1 TBA
	3	TBA
6	1	Decorator Pattern	pp. 79-107 (decorator)	Drawing Program - Decorators
	2	Observer push model Decorator Pattern continued	Sample code from W4 with working observer impl: WeatherStation.zip New files (also in zip file): WeatherDataProvider.java WeatherPacket.java
	3	Decorator Pattern continued Decorators in Java I/O Encryption using a Decorator	Sample code IODecorators.zip Secret message file message.txt
7	1	Composite Pattern	Sample code: ComputerBuilder.zip Sample code: SwingCompsitesDemoApp.zip pp. 317-344 (skim) pp. 345-377 Sample Code: CommandApp.zip pp. 191-233	Drawing Program - Composites
	2	Composite Pattern continued: Swing Containment classes
	3	Half Exam 2 Command Pattern
8	1	Command Pattern - Undo support	Model View Controller in Head First	Drawing Program - Undo support
	2
	3	Model-View-Controller: A compound pattern
9	1		Sample code: p 434 (proxy overview) pp. 429-497 (RMI proxy details) Sample Code: pp. 628-629	Remote Proxy Sample:
	2	MVC continued Proxy Pattern
	3	Proxy Pattern (continued)
10	1	Facade Pattern / Adapter Pattern Summary		GPS Observer continued
	2	TBA Facade Pattern? Adapter Pattern? Summary?	pp. 578-609 Final Exam info Course Outcomes
	3	Review
11	Final Exam TBA