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Approximate Schedule

This document contains the approximate week-by-week schedule for this course. This schedule is permanently under construction. Details are to be filled in soon.

Subject to significant changes for fall 2007

Week 1

Object-Oriented Programming
Development Process
- Test-driven development
- JUnit (Java unit testing framework)
Tools
Quiz 0 on Java/OO basics (ungraded pretest)
Reading
- Jia, chapters 1 and 2
- If you are unfamiliar with Java or need a refresher: Jia, chapters 3 through 5

Week 2

Object-Oriented Programming
Reading
- Jia, chapters 6 and 7

Week 3

Frameworks
Tools
- javadoc
Quiz 1 on Java/OO basics
Reading
- Jia, chapter 8

Week 4

Patterns
- Command
Reading
- Jia, chapter 9, especially sections 9.5.3 and 9.5.6

Week 5

Patterns
- Composite: expressions
Quiz 2 on collections and composites
Reading
- Jia, chapter 10

Week 6

Patterns
- Visitor

Week 7

Implementation
- Simple imperative language

Week 8

Implementation
- Simple imperative language
- Abstract subclasses (mixins)
Quiz 3 on composites and visitors
- Practice exam / Solutions

Week 9

Implementation
- Records
- Objects

Week 10

Implementation
- Inheritance

Week 11

Implementation
Project discussion

Week 12

Reflection
- Reflection vs. metaprogramming
- Java reflection documentation
- The reflection API
- Dynamic Proxy
- Java class loader
Quiz 4 on implementation

Week 13

Aspect-Oriented Programming
- Introduction
- Weaving: static versus dynamic
- Approaches using static weaving
- AspectJ
Reading
- Aspect-Oriented Software Development

Week 14

Aspect-Oriented Programming
- Approaches using dynamic weaving
- Spring AOP
- Problem with Spring AOP
- JBoss AOP