New Undergraduate Course ECE 435 Object-Oriented Design Using C++ and Java

                                                                             Engineering Faculty Document No. 01-02

                                                                                                                     August 19, 2002

 

 

TO:                 The Faculty of the College of Engineering

FROM:           The Faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

RE:                 New Undergraduate Level Course ECE 435

The faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has approved the following new course. This action is now submitted to the Engineering Faculty with a recommendation for approval.

ECE 435         Object-Oriented Design Using C++ and Java

 

Sem. 2, Class 3, cr. 3.

Prerequisite: ECE 462 and Consent of Instructor

 

Review of OO design with C++ and Java.  Difficulties caused by multiple inheritance in C++.  Taking advantage of Run-Time Identification in C++.  Multi-threading, AWT, and Network Programming in Java.  Discussion of Java applets, beans, and servlets.  Unified modeling language.  Use-case analysis.  Constructing conceptual models.  System sequence diagrams.  “Gang of Four” design patterns.  Case studies.   

 

Reason:          It is now widely recognized that just knowing OO languages and having access to a library of classes is not sufficient for creating OO designs.  This realization has led to the emergence of a “patterns movement” in the OO community.  Patterns are the “best practice” designs that have evolved over the years for tackling issues such as how to make objects sharable; how and when to assign responsibilities to objects; how to make the OO design reusable in other similar contexts, etc.  

 

Mark Smith, Head

School of Electrical & Computer Engineering

 

 

 

 

                                                                             Engineering Faculty Document No. 01-02

                                                                                                                  November 9, 2006

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Supporting Documentation

 

Level: Undergraduate Level

Course Instructor:  Avinash C. Kak

 

Course Outline:

 

Topics                                                                                                  Lectures

 

 

            1.         Course Introduction                                                                            1

            2.         Software Development Process for Large OO Programs                   1

            3.         Use Cases, Class Diagrams                                                                 1

            4.         Class Diagrams (Advanced Concepts)                                               1

            5.         Interaction, Package, State, and Activity Diagrams                           3

            6.         Extending Classes in C++ and Java                                                   5

            7.         OO Design using Multiple Inheritance in C++                                   4

            8.         Design Patterns                                                                                   6

            9.         OO for GUI Design with Java , C++, and C                                     7

                        (AWT/Swing in Java, Qt in C++, and GNOME/GTK+ in C)

10.              OO Design using Multithreading                                                       4

11.              OO Design in Network Programming                                                4

12.              Design for Database Programming                                                     3

13.              OO Design for Web Sevices Programming                                        2

14.              Exams 2                                                                                              2

Total                                                                                                 44

 

Text(s):          

            1.         UML Distilled, Applying the Standard Object Modeling Language, Martin

                           Fowler and Kendall Scott, Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-32563-2.

                            

            2.         Java Design Patterns, James Cooper, Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-

                           48539-7.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recommended Reference(s):

            CoreJava:  Volumes I and II, Cay Horstman and Gary Cornell, Sun Microsystems,

            1997, ISBN No: 0-13-766965-8.

 

            C++ Programming Language, 3rd edition, B. Stroustrup, Addison-Wesley, 1997,

            ISBN No: 0-201-88954-4.

 

            Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Erich Gamma,

            et. al., Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN No: 0-201-63361-2.

 

Outcomes:

A student who successfully fulfills the course requirements will have demonstrated:

 

 i.   a knowledge of the Unified Modeling Language for the conceptual design of

      object-oriented programs. [3,4;e,k]

 

ii.   an ability to design object-oriented solutions to programming problems using

      previously developed “best practice” design components. [3,4;e,k]

 

iii.    an understanding of the pros and cons associated with multiple inheritance in

      C++.  [3,4;e,k]

 

iv.    a knowledge of graphics and user interface programming with Java. [3,4;c,e,k]

 

v.   an ability to carry out databases programming in Java. [3,4;e,k]

 

vi.    an understanding of multithreading issues in Java. [3,4;e,k]       

 

Assessment Methods for Course Outcomes:  Each of the outcomes will be assessed by giving the students appropriate C++ and Java programming assignments.