Notes From Class

Week 1: January 25, 2018.

• Here is a copy of the class syllabus .

• Class Reader

  CLASS NOTES WILL BE AVAILABLE ON WEDNESDAY 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 was finally released in September 2017.

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

• Lecture slides: The Java Language .

• Lecture slides: Working with Objects and Classes .

• Homework 1
  Due date: February 21.

  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, 7.4, 7.9 and 7.16 in the class reader.

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

    Solve Problems: 7.9, 7.16, 7.17 and 7.23 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 or Scala.

  Deliverables

  Hand in (i.e., e-mail) a zip file of the source code for your programs (including input and output files), 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 8.

  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.

• Lecture Slides: Java Collections Framework .

• 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: Maria's Presentation at ICONS 2017

• Here are the midterms exams from 2012 , 2013 , 2016 and 2017 .

• Midterm 1. March 15. Open book and open notes.

• Lecture Slides: Structural Design Patterns .

• Java2D: Online Tutorial

• Support Material: Java2D Affine Transformations ,

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

• Homework 3
  Due date: April 17.

  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.

• Tutorials on XML and JAXB

  Support Material: XML Tutorial , Tutorials Point, 2017.

  Support Material: Buiza D., JAXB Tutorial for Java XML Binding , Java Code Geeks, 2015.

• Lecture Slides: Modeling Real-World Networks .

• Support Material: Tutorial: Tree Data Structures and Algorihms

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

• No class on April 24 (we will be presenting a paper at IEEE SysCon 2018).

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

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

• Here are the final exams from 2013 , 2016 and 2017 .

• No class on May 8 (we will be presenting a paper at CSER 2018).

• Final Exam. May 10, 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.
  

Project Report , Due: May 17 (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).

Last Modified: May 1, 2018.
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