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Overview
The course presents the theory and practice of object-oriented
programming.
The course enhances students understanding of the concepts of object,
class,
message, method, inheritance, and genericity. The course covers a
basic
model for objects; the principles of types and polymorphism in
object-oriented
programming languages; different forms of abstraction; and theory and
practice
of reuse. The course also introduces students to some object-oriented
design
patterns that practitioners have found useful.
Announcements
Dec 9: The exam tomorrow appears to be in HT (Hurtig
Hall), room 224, from 13h00-15h00. You are allowed one
double-sided 8-1/2x11 sheet of paper; no other notes, books, or
electronics allowed.
Dec 8: Last lecture is up (the Java mutability model
one.) Also added the topics from the final review.
Dec 5: Submission instructions for Exercise 4 of
Homework 7 are up on the discussion group, in the "Homework #7" topic.
Dec 4: Last two lectures are up.
Nov 25: Catching up on lecture notes; all but lecture 16
(the model of mutation) are up below.
Nov 20: Homework 7 is out. See below for the problem set
and the corresponding code. There is a lot of code, so start
looking at this early. More to follow on the discussion group;
check often.
Nov 8: Getting the music going requires that all your
classes in the music package work correctly. While you should have
all corrected your previous homeworks to correct the bugs that the
graders found (I'm thinking of the Note class in particular, where
some of you decided to make the fields static, something that will
lead to extremely interesting behaviors when you try to actually
play the notes!), I suspect some of you may have "forgotten" to do
so. So let me provide two compiled Note.class and Pitch.class that you can use. See, for
instance, this link for info on how to import a class file in your Eclipse project. (You may need to remove the .java files for Note.java and Pitch.java that you already have in there, and move the new class files to the music package.)
Nov 6: The midterm's mean seems to be around
39, so a bit higher than I expected. I will try to post a more
careful discussion of the answers by the end of the week. Stay
tuned.
Nov 4: Typo in homework 6, in the specification of
hasNext for concatenated voices: the AND should be an
OR. Thanks to Ian for spotting it. Also: for the optional bit of
the homework, here are the files MidiPlayer.java
containing the code to interface to the Java Sound API, as well as
Samples.java containing some sample music.
Oct 31: Happy Halloween! For class yesterday, I would
have covered the Java Collections Framework, which is
theoretically completely uninteresting, but nevertheless extremely
useful so that you can avoid re-inventing the wheel everytime you
program in java. I do not intend to recover the lecture at a later
date, so please please go over the assigned reading, because
I will assume that you are familiar with the basics of the
Collections framework from now on.
Oct 30: No lecture this morning - home sick. But
homework 6 is out - see below. Due Nov 9th.
Oct 23: Lecture notes for this morning are up. I've also
attached the "cheat sheet" I used to give you back the list of
topics to review for the midterm.
Oct 22: I've been getting reports from the TAs that some
students' code is running off the right side of the printed
page. It is usually a good idea to follow the 80-columns layout
for code, that is, have lines of code that do not go for more than
80 characters. 80 columns is the common dimension for editors,
terminal emulators, printers and debuggers, for reasons mostly
historical. Please see here for tips on how to get Eclipse to give you a line at the 80-column mark. You can also find some more Java style guidelines here.
Oct 22: Couple of typos and clarifications in homework 5
(spec of .equals() and hashCode()). See the
discussion group for more details. The copy of the homework below
has been corrected.
Oct 17: Lecture notes for last two classes are up. We
are now fully caught up. Let's see how long it lasts...
Oct 16: Homework 5 is out, due Sunday October 28, at 22h00.
Oct 14: Lecture notes for lectures 8 and 9 are up. I am
slowly catching up...
Oct 12: Readings for this morning's lecture are up.
Oct 8: The class on Tuesday (Oct 9th) is cancelled. See
you all Friday.
Oct 5: Homework 4 is out, due Sunday October 14, at 22h00.
Oct 2: Software Testing notes are up.
Oct 2: Readings for next lecture from the textbook,
sections 3.1-3.5 (on design - another take on the ADT approach)
and section 6.1 (inheritance).
Sep 30: Added a sample tester for a hypothetical integer
stack ADT in the notes for the Sep 28 lecture below. Have a
look. It is a variant of the ClassroomTester. There are also some
hints as to how to test the equals() method.
Sep 29: Update to homework 2 - the first argument to
Pitch.named() must be one of the
strings shown in the specification. If this is not
the case, then a runtime exception should be thrown.
Along the same lines, the second argument to Pitch.named() and the
second argument
to transposed() must be such that the equivalent Pitch.numbered()
argument
does not violate the constraint on valid inputs to numbered(). If this
is violated, then
a runtime exception should be thrown.
Sep 29: Typo in homework 2, the specification for
equals. I have linked the corrected version below.
Sep 27: Tuesday's lecture notes are up.
Sep 27: Lecture notes for last week are up. I hope to
be done with last Tuesday's notes later tonight.
Sep 25: There seems to have been some confusion on the
due date for homeworks 2 and 3. I initially meant for the dates on
the homeworks to be the correct ones. Part of the confusion is
that my initial draft of the syllabus had incorrect dates. Sigh.
In any case, I am willing to give some leaway on this homework,
because of this confusion. Thus, I will accept homeworks
until October 1st, 22h00. (That's Monday evening, if you follow at
home.)
Sep 25: Readings for next lecture are down in the schedule.
Sep 22: I should have put these up before, but I have
added some links to the official Java documentation in the online
resources section below. That's the definite place to go when you
have a question about the language.
Sep 21: Homeworks 2 and 3 are out; see below. Due in (two
weeks? no... this was a massive typo. After a couple of back and
forths, the new deadline is October 1st.) They are handed out together because they go
together. Homework 2 asks you to implement a class, and homework 3
asks you to implement a testing class for the class you wrote in
homework 2.
Sep 17: Correction to the ClassroomTester.java testing
code, including comments :)
Sep 16: Lecture notes for first three lectures added below.
Sep 15: Forgot to add - the ClassroomTester
testing code for homework 1 is linked below. This is what we will
use to test the code you send us.
Sep 15: First off, readings for next class are posted
below; basically, read about packages. Also, I figured out 5
minutes after class why my code did not compile there at the
end. Abstract classes cannot have constructors, as they are
abstract and cannot be instantiated. Duh. My lecture notes will
reflect that, once I get around to posting them (hopefully by the
end of the week).
Sep 15: Typo in homework 1: the signature defines a
method totalSeats() while the specification defines it as
totalCapacity(). They should both be
totalCapacity(). The homework below has been updated.
Sep 11: Oh, and readings for next lecture have been
posted in the Schedule below.
Sep 11: I've created the Facebook discussion group NU CSU 370 Fall 2007 Pucella; please join. (If you are
not registered for the class, or not yet at least, drop me an
email as well so I know to approve you.)
Sep 11: Homework 1 is out, due Sep 18 at 22h00. I will discuss
submission next week.
Sep 7: Wiley sent me a friendly email stating that our
textbook is also available 50% as an online book. I will not be
using the textbook in class directly, I will only give out
readings, so there is no issue with having an online version. See
here, and check out the "STUDENTS" box on the right.
Course Information
Time and Location: Tuesday/Friday 9h50-11h30, in
108 West Village H
(#23H)
Instructor: Riccardo Pucella,
328 West Village H (#23H)
Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday 16h00-17h30
Teaching Assistants:
- Alec Heller, 308 West Village H
Office Hours: Friday 14h00-15h30
- Bryan Chadwick, 308 West Village H
Office Hours: Tuesday 15h00-16h30
Course Web Site: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/riccardo/csu370
Prerequisites: CSU 213
Textbooks: The textbook for the course is:
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Cay Hostermann, Object-Oriented Design and Patterns, 2nd
edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2006
Grading: Grading will be based on weekly homeworks
(50%), a midterm (25%), and a final exam (25%).
There may also be one or more quizzes, which may count as either
assignments or exams at the whim of the instructor.
While some program assignments may require students to work in
teams, most assignments and all quizzes and exams are individual.
Student work is subject to the Academic
Honesty and Integrity Policy.
Security is an important aspect of
software development. In this course, students are expected to protect
the software they develop from plagiarism. The quality of
this protection will be graded.
Schedule Outline and Lecture Notes
This schedule is subject to change without warning. Readings
will be assigned to supplement lectures, and posted here.
Homeworks
Homeworks have been removed.
Online Resources
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