Fall 2016 Calendar: Design and Implementation of Software Applications I

CISC 3120

Course Calendars

Subject to revision!

I am teaching two sections of this course. The two Google calendars below show how to map the daily class topics to our class meetings. For example, the Thursday evening class will be covering Class 1 and Class 2 on Thursday, August 25; the T/Th class will be covering Class 1 on August 27, and Class 2 on August 30.

Note that the final exam schedule has already been determined by the College; please make sure now that your exam for this class doesn't conflict with others in your schedule; I will not be able to accommodate rescheduling your final.

The resources listed for each day are items I expect you to have read/prepared before class meets. In general, you should expect a quiz on the readings (an easy way to earn points for doing the reading!).

Evening students: remember, you will be responsible for two classes of preparation each day we meet!

Class	Topic	Resources
Class 1	Introduction to the Class and to Team-Based Learning	Read this in order to get a sense of how the class is going to run. Here is the text of the welcome email I sent to the class earlier in the week. Here are the slides from tonight's class.
Class 2	Exercise 1: Crash Course in Java and Eclipse	Read the book's Introduction. Ignore the instructions on "Setting Up Java." Read Using Eclipse instead. Fill out this short survey. Read About CodeLab. Register for and begin working on CodeLab, here. Instructions for Exercise 1 will appear here.
Class 3	Unit 1: Java Basics. iRAT and tRAT.	Read Chapters 1 and 2.
Class 4	Unit 1 Application Activities	Read Chapter 3.
Class 5	Unit 1 Application Activities	Read Chapter 4. Today we'll also decide on peer evaluation criteria.
Class 6	Exercise 2: GitHub Project 0 assigned	Read About Github. Read the first two chapters of the git book ("Getting Started" and "Git Basics"). Additinally, consider watching any of the videos on that page. Read Getting Your Project on GitHub. But you don't need to mess with GitHub Desktop (unless you want to); Eclipse will let us do all that stuff without leaving our development environment. (We'll work on that in the lab today.) In preparation for Project 0, read About Documentation and Style Today's instructions and notes will appear here.
Class 7	Unit 2: Java-Specific Language Features. iRAT and tRAT.	Read Chapters 5 and 6.
Class 8	Unit 2 Application Activities Project 0 due.	Read Chapter 7.
Class 9	Unit 2 Application Activities	Read Chapter 8.
Class 10	Unit 2 Application Activities
Class 11	Exercise 3: War (and Peace) Midterm Peer Evaluations	Read Chapter 9. The Exercise 3 instructions. Morning section peer evaluation. Evening section peer evaluation.
Class 12	MIDTERM EXAM	Here is a review sheet.
Class 13	Unit 3: Intro to GUIs and Swing. iRAT and tRAT.	Read Chapter 12. The RAT will cover through p. 368.
Class 14	Unit 3 Application Activities	Read Chapter 13. Here is a place for you to provide anonymous feedback about the course so far. (We'll discuss in a couple weeks.)
Class 15	Unit 3 Application Activities
Class 16	Exercise 4: Swing.	Review Chapter 13 (which is a kind of manual for several Swing components).
Class 17	Unit 4: Introduction to Design Patterns iRAT and tRAT	Read the wikipedia page on design patterns. Then,read this discussion about how a few patterns can work together to create very powerful code. (In particular, note that these patterns are "widely used in the design of the Java library classes.")
Class 18	Unit 4 Application Activities	Read the individual pages on the iterator pattern (which is almost too straightforward—it's easy to miss the point— and the decorator pattern (this may be a little more challenging to follow).
Class 19	Unit 4 Application Activities	Read the Wikipedia overview of the Model-View-Controller design pattern. Also, some slides about MVC in Java (slides 1-26, and 33), and a discussion of a simple MVC example in Java (slides 1-5). Finally, the Wikipedia overview of the Observer/Observable pattern in Java
Class 20	Unit 5: Introduction to I/O and Networking iRAT and tRAT	Read Chapter 11. (Yes, it's on exceptions, which is a necessary precursor to talking about I/O and Networking. This chapter will be the subject of the RATs.)
Class 21	Unit 5 Application Activities Last day to withdraw.	Read Chapter 14. Download the book's example code here (if you haven't already) and read the BeatBoxSaveOnly from Chapter 14
Class 22	Unit 5 Application Activities	Read Chapter 15, pages 471-489
Class 23	Exercise 5: Networking.	The exercise.
Class 24	Unit 6: WebSockets iRAT and tRAT Multi-base Calculator due.	By popular demand, here is a short reading guide for Unit 6. Start here. The rest of the readings: A lengthy but detailed tutorial from Oracle. (For the complete example code for this tutorial, look here or download the EE SDK here A simple example with a Java server and JavaScript client, part 1, part 2. An example with a Java client.
Class 25	Unit 6 Application Activities.
Class 26	Unit 6 Application Activities
Class 27	Application Activities	Some detailed instructions for the WebCheckers project—which is extra credit!—are posted here.
Class 28	Review	A topic list for review. The exam will be cumulative, but the emphasis will be on material covered since the midterm--graphics/Swing, network programming, design patterns.