Notes From Class

Week 1: January 26, 2017.

• Here is a copy of the class syllabus .

• Class Reader

  CLASS NOTES WILL BE AVAILABLE ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON!
  Please purchase a copy of the Class Reader from the Engineering Copy Center.
  Cost: $70.00.

• Lecture slides: Introduction, Motivation and Drivers .

• Lecture slides: Software Design and Development .

• Lecture slides: Introduction to Java .

• Java has evolved from Version 1 (mid-90s) through to Versions 8 (released in early 2014).
  Java 9 is scheduled for release in July 2017.

  Click here for a brief description of the capabilities in each version.

• Lecture slides: The Java Language .

• Lecture slides: Working with Objects and Classes .

• Homework 1
  Due date: February 23.

  I have decided to partition the homework into three lavels. You decide what level you fit into -- hand in solutions to four problems.

  Absolute Java Novice. i.e., I have never written a Java program before?

  Solve Problems: 7.2, 7.6, 7.9 and 7.11 in the class reader.

  Java Rusty. i.e., I took a Java class several years ago.

  Solve Problems: 7.9, 7.10, 7.17 and 7.24 in the class reader.

  Java Knowledgeable. i.e., Yeah, I have written a bunch of Java programs...

  Solve the same problems as "Java Rusty" but do it in Python.

  Deliverables. Hand in a zip file of the source code for your programs along with a document summarizing the source code and samples of output.

• Lecture slides: Working with Abstract Classes and Interfaces .

• Lecture slides: Working with Packages, JAR, and Ant .

• Homework 2
  Due date: March 9.

  The purpose of this assigment is learn how to write programs that use classes and objects -- hand in solutions to four problems, coded in either Java or Python.

  Programming in Java.

  Solve Problems: 8.1, 8.2, 8.6 and 8.8 in the class reader.
  

  Programming in Python.

  Solve Problems: 8.1, 8.2, 8.6 and 8.8 in the class reader, but code your solutions in python and/or jython.

  Deliverables. Hand in a zip file of the source code for your programs along with a document summarizing the source code and samples of output.

• Chapter notes: Working with Objects and Classes .

• Lecture Slides: Java Collections Framework .

• Here are the midterms exams from 2012 and 2013 .

• Presentation Slides: Parastoo Delgoshaei,
  Software Patterns for Traceability of Requirements to Finite State Machine Behavior: Application to Rail Transit System Design and Management ,
  INCOSE, Rome, Italy, 2012.

• Presentation Slides: Eddie Tseng,
  Computational Framework for Parametric Modeling and System-Level Assessment of Building Floorplans ,
  MS Thesis Presentation, April, 2015.

• A few screenshots from recent work:

• Lecture Slides: Structural Design Patterns .

• Support Material: J2EE Patterns , Sun Services, SUN Microsystems, 2003.

• Here are the solutions to Homework 1.

• And here are the solutions to Homework 2.

• Homework 3
  Due date: April 13.

  This homework will give you some practice at designing and implementing relationships among classes for a program that requires a handful of classes.

  1. Use either Java or Python to solve problems 11.1 and 11.2 in the class notes.

  2. Click here to download a short set of slides on relationships among classes: association, aggregation and inheritance. On slide numbers 47 and 48 you will find a class diagram and scenario for the operation of games in a small casino.

     Develop a set of Java (or Python) class relationships to refect the structure shown in slide 47. Try to use abstract classes and interfaces where you think that it makes sense.

     Note. You do not need to write code for what each method would do -- just provide the method declarations and perhaps a simple print message.

  3. Organize your solutions to the homework into a collection of packages, and develop an ant build.xml to control the compilation and execution of each part of the homework.

• Research Papers

  Arellano A., Zontek-Carney E., and Austin M.A.,
  Frameworks for Natural Language Processing of Texual Requirements ( pdf ),
  International Journal On Advances in Systems and Measurements, Vol. 8, No. 3 and 4, December 2015, pp. 230--240.

  Alan Nguyen and Mark Austin,
  Computational Modeling of City Systems-of-Systems Behavior with Hierarchical Component-Based Networks ( pdf ),
  Submitted to CSER 2015.

• Midterm Exam. April 4. Open book and open notes.
  Duration: 1 1/2 hrs.
  Three questions covering various aspects of Java and Java Collections.

• Lecture Slides: Modeling Real-World Networks .

• Lecture Slides: Maria's Presentation

• Lecture Slides: Chapter 15: Behavior Modeling Abstractions and Software Design Patterns

• Lecture Slides: Chapter 14: Modeling of Three-Dimensional Solids

• Here is a nice writeup on the Euler-Poincare Formula.

• Most likely: No Class. Work on Projects ...

• Here are the final exams from 2012 , 2013 and 2016 .

• Final Exam. May 11, 5-7 pm in our regular classroom.
  The final exam will be open book and open notes,
  and will have the same style as the midterm exam.
  

  Exam Update: Three questions covering Java and Java Collections.
  

  Make sure that you look at the recent final exams, and the chapters on Java Collections and Software Design Patterns.

Project Report , Due: May 16 (no extensions)

Write a 10-15 page report on your project that includes:

1. A problem statement.
   What problem (or class of problems) does your software development address?
2. The software architecture. Describe the use of packages,
   arrangement of user-defined classes and interface classes, graphs and Java collections in your program.
3. Screendumps of your graphical user interface.
4. Brief conclusions and steps for future work (if you had more time).

Hand in the project report and a zip file of your code.

Last Modified: May 11, 2017.
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