COM1204 Summer 2001 -- Object-Oriented Design

Professor Futrelle -- College of Computer Science, Northeastern U., Boston, MA

(Updated Monday 6/18/2001)

Introduction

This page is brief, because much of what you need to know about this topic is just what's covered in your textbook, Program Development in Java -- Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design by Barbara Liskov and John Guttag (Addison-Wesley, 2001). But for completeness, I've included some links on the topic.

Dr. Dobbs Journal has a page on Patterns and OO Design.

Here's a page, What Makes A Good Object-Oriented Design?, at the OOTips site.

Here's an entire on-line course on Object-Oriented Software Design and Construction with Java at Virginia Tech, by Dr. Dennis Kafura.

UML, a diagrammatic design notation

Here is a course page on these techniques.

Design Patterns

Software design patterns are supposed to capture pre-existing techniques that have worked. But the "Patterns" movement goes far beyond the practical in many cases, so be careful -- it merges into general issues of the philosophy of design. You may want to look at this extensive page by Brad Appleton.

Here is a set of lectures on Patterns (from the Technion in Israel)

This is more than you might need, but is an entire book, The Design Patterns Java Companion by James W. Cooper, 1998 (PDF format, 218 pages).

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