Tentative Schedule

This is an old version of this course, from Winter 2016-2017. A newer version is available here.

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

Lab titles and schedule is particularly subject to change, especially the first two labs and the labs near the end of the quarter.

 

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
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 pp. 526-560	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