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Proposal for COMP3xxx Object Oriented Design and Implementation

John Potter CSE UNSW 23 July 2004; minor revision 26 July

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Aims:

• to give students the experience of designing and implementing a complete software application
• to learn principles of object-oriented design
• to develop techniques for reusable design and maintainable code
• to conduct test-driven development
• to understand and apply the design by contract approach to specification

Implementation platform:

• Java

Development Tools:

• a Java IDE (such as eclipse),
• a GUI builder
• standard Java libraries
• a testing framework (Junit)

Proposed Format:

• 2 hour lect + 2 hour lab per week
• assessment: 2 design and implementation projects; final exam

Prerequisite:

• COMP2011 or equivalent
• Assumed knowledge:

introduction to Java programming
familiarity with Java Collections Framework
standard data structures

Topics:

• Test-Driven Development:
• test cases as partial specification
• regression testing
• use of Junit testing framework
• Principles of OO Design:
• open-closed
• Liskov substitution
• dependency inversion
• single responsibility
• modularity
• OO Design Notations:
• Informal: CRC Cards
• Semi-formal: UML class diagrams
• Design by Contract:
• class invariants
• pre and post-conditions
• run-time assertions

• Design Patterns:
• coverage of the GOF patterns + more
• integrated into other parts of the course
• Frameworks:
• design considerations
• GUI framework case studies: AWT, Swing, SWT (ex IBM)
• identification of design patterns in existing frameworks
• Designing for Reuse:
• practice in designing a small framework
• refactoring code

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Proposal for COMP3yyy Object Oriented Programming

John Potter CSE UNSW 23 July 2004

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Aims:

· to develop expertise in C++

· to gain experience programming in OO environments

· to understand different approaches to OO programming

· to gain proficiency in generic programming

Assessment:

• 2 assignments, one project, two exams

Prerequisite:

• COMP2011 or equivalent

Corequisite:

• COMP3xxx Object Oriented Design and Implementation

Topics:

exposed through practical programming exercises using case studies from open source projects

· fundamental C++ programming

o syntax

o classes

o tempaltes

o namespaces

o STL

o operator overloading

· organisation of OO runtimes

o object layout

o template instantiations

· memory management:

o garbage collectors

o reference counting

o customised allocators.

· inheritance models

o multi-methods

o multiple and virtual inheritance

o polymorphic templates

o dynamic binding

o single vs multiple dispatch

· generic programming

o compile-time vs. run-time.

· reflection

o template reflection

· functions as objects

o function pointers

o STL Functors

· exceptions