COM6050 - Java and UML for Programmers

News

The lecture on Thursday 17 October is cancelled (SJR at meeting in Switzerland)

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Contents

• Lectures : Notes, code, exercises
• Lab classes
• Assignments
• Resources

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Lectures

There are two lectures per week:

• Monday, 15:10-16:00 SG-LT10
• Thursday, 16:10-17:00 SG-LT11

(The Monday 16:00-17:00 slot will be used for a lab class.)

PDF PDF (4-up) java Source Code Exercises Solutions* PDF PDF (4-up) java Source Code Exercises Solutions*

1	30-Sep-2002 (wk1)	Introduction				(-)	(-)
2	03-Oct-2002 (wk1)	Basic programming structures
3	07-Oct-2002 (wk2)	Object-oriented programming				(-)	(-)
4	10-Oct-2002 (wk2)	Classes in java
5	14-Oct-2002 (wk3)	Inheritance (1)
#	17-Oct-2002 (wk3)	LECTURE CANCELLED	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)
6	21-Oct-2002 (wk4)	Inheritance (2)
7	24-Oct-2002 (wk4)	Abstract classes and interfaces
8	28-Oct-2002 (wk5)	Exceptions
9	31-Oct-2002 (wk5)	java Collections Framework (1)
		(Extra notes about Hashing)
10	4-Nov-2002 (wk6)	java Collections Framework (2)
11	7-Nov-2002 (wk6)	UML (1)			-	-	-
12	11-Nov-2002 (wk7)	UML (2)			-	-	-
13	14-Nov-2002 (wk7)	Graphics programming
14	18-Nov-2002 (wk8)	Event handling
15	21-Nov-2002 (wk8)	GUI Management
16	25-Nov-2002 (wk9)	Design Patterns: MVC and Observer				-	-
17	28-Nov-2002 (wk10)	Design Patterns: Adapter, Bridge and Composite			-	-	-
18	2-Dec-2002 (wk10)	Creational Patterns			-	-	-
19	5-Dec-2002 (wk10)	(J)Unit Testing				-	-

(*: Solutions to exercises will appear 1-2 weeks after the exercise was set.)

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Lab Sessions

Lab classes will take place each Monday 16:00-17:00 in the Lewin Lab. The demonstrator will be Manuel Sanchez .

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Assignment

There will be one assignment, which will account for 30% of the overall mark for this module.

Assignment: design, implement and test a maze game in java.

Assignment out: Thursday 31 October 2002

Handin deadline: Wednesday 18 December 2002

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Resources

• The sheffield package (on Guy Brown's page)
• Javadoc home page
• Javadoc documentation
• How to write Doc Comments for Javadoc
• Sun java Tutorial on Handling errors with exceptions
• Sun java Tutorial on Writing Applets
• Sun java Tutorial on Applets using Swing
• java Solutions article: Secrets of equals by Angelika Langer and Klaus Kreft
• Sun java Tutorial on The java Collections Framework
• JavaWorld: Get started with the java Collections Framework
• java Solutions article: The java 2 Collections
• Use Cases: Alistair Cockburn's Use Cases site
• Design by Contract: Design by Contract in Eiffel
• iContract - Design by Contract in java: iContract homepage; JavaWorld article
• Tools for UML: Poseidon ("Community edition" is freely downloadable); Violet (simple tool for class, sequence and state diagrams)
• Sun java Tutorial on the java 2D API
• Sun java Tutorial on Swing
• Bruce Eckel's book, Thinking in Patterns in java
• JUnit