CS 4310 Programming Language Concepts

Winter 2007, Class Schedule

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

Jan 8: Introduction -- the software process, Software Capability Maturity Model

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Jan 10: 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")

Jan 15: Martin Luther King Day

Jan 17: Testing

• Reading: Paper on designing effective test cases

Jan 22: Model-View-Controller architectural pattern

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

Group meeting (2nd half of class)

Jan 24: Object-oriented analysis, UML class diagrams, class diagram lab

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

Jan 29: More on class diagrams, collaboration diagrams, sequence diagrams

• Reading: Sequence diagrams tutorial (by Donald Bell)

Jan 31: Prototyping

• Reading: Sommerville, ch. 8 slides

Feb 5: Software engineering tools
Group project meeting

Feb 7: Midterm review

Feb 12: Midterm

Feb 14: Layers architecture
Data flow architecture

Feb 19: User interface design, user guide

Feb 21: Risk management

• Reading: Examples of software risk

Group project meeting

Feb 26: Data design, entity-relationship model

• Reading: Introduction (includes Normalization)
• Reading: Introduction (has more on translating the E-R model to a relational model, and also more of a mathematical description)

Feb 28: Inheritance of interface
Introduction to design patterns

Mar 5: Example of UML and design patterns

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

Group project meeting

Mar 7: Object-behavior model, UML state transition diagrams

Mar 12: Law, ethics

Mar 14: Presentations

Mar 21: Final exam, 4-5:50pm

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