Notes From Class

Week 1: January 29 and 31, 2019.

• Here is a copy of the class syllabus .

• Lecture slides: Introduction, Motivation and Drivers .

• Lecture slides: Software Design and Development .

• Java has evolved from Version 1 (mid-90s) through to Versions 8 (released in early 2014).
  Java 10 was released in March 2018.

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

• Class Reader

  CLASS NOTES WILL BE AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 13
  Please purchase a copy of the Class Reader from the Engineering Copy Center.
  Cost: $70.00.

• Lecture slides: Introduction to Java .

• Click here for a list of keywords in Java.

• Lecture slides: The Java Language .

• Lecture slides: Working with Objects and Classes .

• Homework 1
  Due date: March 5.

  Solve Problems: 7.5, 7.9, 7.16, 7.17, 8.6 and 8.7 in the class reader.

  Problems 8.6 and 8.7 require Complex.java.
  You can find it in java-code-basics folder handed out in class, see: java-code-basics/src/objects/Complex.java.
  Feel free to modify the code as you see fit.

  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 Packages, JAR, and Ant .

• Lecture slides: Working with Abstract Classes and Interfaces .

• Lecture Slides: Java Collections Framework .

• Homework 2
  Due date: March 28.

  The purpose of this assigment is learn how to write programs that use classes and objects coded in Java.

  Solve Problems 11.1, 11.2 and 11.4 in the class reader.
  

  For problem 11.4, look at the chapter version that is on the "notes from class" web page (not the problem description in the lecture notes hardcopy).

  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: Maria's Presentation at ICONS 2017

• Handout: Tree Traveral Algorithms .

• Handout: KDD 2017: Learning Representations of Large-Scale Networks .

• Handout: DeepMind: City Scale Navigation .

• 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.

• A few screenshots from recent work:

  Left: BWI Airport.
  Center: NYC subway system and coastline.
  Right: Red, green and orange lines on Washington DC Metro System.

• Lecture Slides: Structural Design Patterns .

• Click here for a nice collection of design pattern code implemented in Java.

  We will cover some of these patterns in class.

• Here are the midterms exams from 2016 and 2018 .

• Midterm 1. April 4. Open book and open notes.

• Lecture Slides: Modeling Real-World Networks .

• Here is the problem writeup for Question 11.4. Huge apologies for taking so long with this ...

• Algorithms for Directed Graphs (from CS department at Princeton).

• Handout: Java Topology Suite in Action ( pdf ).

• Handout: JTS Developers Guide ( pdf ).

• OpenStreetMap Data Model

• OpenStreetMap Elements . Describes how nodes, ways and relations work.

• XML Tutorial , Tutorials Point, 2017.

• Buiza D., JAXB Tutorial for Java XML Binding , Java Code Geeks, 2015.

• The JavaFX language introduces a bunch of new features -- properties, binding of properties, and observable lists and maps.

  Here is a tutorial that explains the differences between list and maps found in Java Collections and observable lists and maps found in JavaFX.

• Lecture Slides: Behavior Modeling Abstractions and Software Design Patterns

• Working with JUnit .

• Here are the final exams from 2016 , 2017 and 2018 .

• Final Exam. May 14, 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).

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