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Introduction

With this assignment, we will try to wrap up your knowledge about Java, or any other object-oriented programming language you know (C++, Object Pascal, Python, Ruby ...), to get the essence of object orientation, to turn yourself from a programmer back to a designer: Use object orientation as a tool to slice the compex into the simple, and put them back again in a structured way.

Schedule

Week 1

Lecture: Thinking in Objects - An introduction to UML

Assignment:

• Read online: [http://odl-skopje.etf.ukim.edu.mk/uml-help/ UML Totorial in 7 days] by Slobodan Kalajdziski;

• Read in the train: [http://www3.software.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rational/web/whitepapers/2003/intro_rdn.pdf Introduction to the Unified Modeling Language by Terry Quatrani]

• Refreshing your Java Objects: [http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/ Thinking in Java]

  • Chapter 1: introduction to Objects (skip "Java and the Internet", "Why Java succeeds" and "Java vs C++")
  • Chapter 16: Analysis and Design

Week 2

Lecture: OOA, OOD, OOP

Assignment: Modelling a product designed by yourself before.

Week 3

Presentation: Everybody gets 5 minutes.

Assignment: Modelling a product designed by yourself

Week 4

Lecture: Design Patters I: Observer, Iterator, Bridge ...

Assignment: Reading

Week 5

Lecture: Design Patterns II: MVC, PAC

Assignment: Redesign your game from Java B using patterns.

Week 6

work. work.

Online Resources

• [http://www.uml.org/ Official OMG UML site]

• [http://odl-skopje.etf.ukim.edu.mk/uml-help/ UML Totorial in 7 days] by Slobodan Kalajdziski;

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