CS 4310 Programming Language Concepts

Fall 2007, Class Schedule

All days in red are mandatory. Days in green are holidays

Sep 26: Introduction -- the software process, Software Capability Maturity Model

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Oct 1: Programming: coding standards, style, metrics, documentation

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• Reading:

Customer Requirements, use cases

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• Reading: Allen Holub's simple case study (Read up to "Submit a mockup to a real user")

Oct 3: Testing

• Reading: Paper on designing effective test cases

Oct 8: Model-View-Controller architectural pattern

• Reading: Steve Burbeck's original article on the Model-View-Controller architecture

Group meeting (2nd half of class)

Oct 10: Object-oriented analysis, UML class diagrams, class diagram lab

• Reading: Article by Donald Bell

Oct 15: Data design, entity-relationship model

• Reading: Introduction (not maintained any longer, but still valid -- includes Normalization) Alternate introduction (has more on translating the E-R model to a relational model, and also more of a mathematical description)

Oct 17: Prototyping

• Reading: Sommerville, ch. 8 slides

Oct 22: Software engineering tools -- Subversion
Group project meeting

Oct 24: Midterm review

Oct 29: Midterm

Oct 31: More on class diagrams, collaboration diagrams, sequence diagrams

• Reading: Sequence diagrams tutorial (by Donald Bell)

Nov 5: More software engineering tools

Nov 7: Risk management

• Reading: Examples of software risk

Group project meeting

Nov 12: Veterans Day

Nov 14: Layers architecture
Data flow architecture

Nov 19: User interface design, user guide
Group project meeting

Nov 21: Inheritance of interface
Introduction to design patterns

Nov 26: Example of UML and design patterns

• Reading: Object mentor example (from Martin and Newkirk)

Nov 28: Object-behavior model, UML state transition diagrams

Dec 3: Law, ethics

Dec 5: Presentations

Dec 10: Final exam, 4-5:50pm

• Reading: Fall 2007 Final exam schedule (Always check this link to confirm the schedule)