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CS 3500: Object-Oriented Design

Syllabus -- Spring 2016

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Meeting places & times

Course staff & office hours

Instructors

  

Benjamin Lerner

  

blerner@ccs

  

314 WVH

  

Tue 2:30 – 4:30 PM,
Thu 2:30 – 4:30 PM,
and by appointment

  

Amit Shesh

  

ashesh@ccs

  

478 WVH

  

Tue 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM,
Thu 2:00 – 4:00 PM
and by appointment

  

Clark Freifeld

  

ccf@ccs

  

478 WVH

  

By appointment

TAs:

  

Benjamin Greenman

  

types@ccs

  

3rd floor WVH

  

Wed 8:00–11:00pm

  

Niousha Jafari (NJ)

  

njafari@ccs

  

3rd floor WVH

  

Tue 2:00–5:00pm

  

Tom Kowalski

  

kowalski@ccs

  

3rd floor WVH

  

Thu 3:00–6:00pm

  

Kevin Liu

  

kevinfyi@ccs

  

3rd floor WVH

  

Fri 12:00–3:00pm

  

Bryan Wehner

  

bwehner@ccs

  

3rd floor WVH

  

Mon 3:00–6:00pm

  

Omkar Bhat

  

omkar@ccs

  

3rd floor WVH

  

Wed 1:00–4:00pm

  

Max Lever

  

maxlever@ccs

  

3rd floor WVH

  

Tue 7:00–10:00pm

CCIS Tutors:

  

See See here

Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner

Amit Shesh
Amit Shesh

Clark Freifeld
Clark Freifeld

Ben Greenman
Benjamin Greenman

Niousha Jafari
Niousha Jafari (NJ)

Tom Kowalski
Tom Kowalski

Kevin Liu
Kevin Liu

Bryan Wehner
Bryan Wehner

Omkar Bhat
Omkar Bhat

Max Lever
Max Lever


General information

CS 3500 teaches a rigorous approach to object-oriented programming and design, with an emphasis on abstraction, modularity, and code reuse as applied to the building and understanding of large-scale systems. We will explore the basic mechanisms and concepts of object-oriented programming: object, class, message, method, interface, encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance. Students will gain hands-on experience with tools and techniques that facilitate the creation and maintenance of applications using the Java programming language.

Prerequisites

This course assumes familiarity with programming in the style of How to Design Programs, and basic knowledge of the Java programming language as introduced in CS 2510.

Exams

We will have two examinations:


Materials

Software

For programming assignments, we will use Java 8. You should download and install the Java SE Development Kit, version 8 from Oracle.

The supported IDE (integrated development environment) for the course is IntelliJ IDEA. This is the IDE that the instructor uses in lecture, and we may occasionally give instructions for how to perform particular tasks in IDEA. You are free to use a different IDE, but we may not be able to help you if you run into trouble. IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition may be downloaded free of charge, and I’ve posted instructions to license the Ultimate Edition on Piazza.

Books

There is no required textbook, but you may find these books useful.

Online resources


Lectures

This table specifies the lecture schedule; topics are tentative.

Date

 

Topics (tentative and approximate)

 

Materials

01/11 M

 

Why object-oriented design?

 

notes

01/13 W

 

The essence of objects

 

notes

01/18 M

 

No class: Martin Luther King Day

 

01/20 W

 

Java review

 

notes and notes

01/25 M

 

Java safari

 

notes

01/27 W

 

Java safari (part 2)

 

notes

02/01 M

 

Introducing the Model, and the Builder pattern

 

notes

02/03 W

 

Encapsulation and Invariants

 

notes

02/08 M

 

Version control

 

tutorial

02/10 W

 

Controllers and Mocks

 

notes

02/15 M

 

No class: Presidents’ Day

 

02/17 W

 

Review of homework

 

02/22 M

 

Review of homework (part 2)

 

02/24 W

 

The Adapter Pattern

 

notes

02/29 M

 

First exam

 

In class

03/02 W

 

Inheritance vs. composition

 

notes

03/07 M

 

No class: Spring break

 

03/09 W

 

No class: Spring break

 

03/14 M

 

Design discussion of music models

 

03/16 W

 

Intro to Performance

 

notes

03/21 M

 

More about performance, a design challenge

 

notes

03/23 W

 

Controllers and event handlers

 

code

03/28 M

 

The strategy and decorator patterns

 

code

03/30 W

 

Introduction to JavaScript

 

04/04 M

 

JavaScript inheritance and patterns

 

04/06 W

 

Callbacks and event-driven programming

 

04/11 M

 

Promises and testing async code

 

04/13 W

 

Exam review

 

04/18 M

 

No class: Patriots’ Day

 

04/19 T

 

Second exam

 

Snell 168, 5:30–8:00PM

04/20 W

 

The take-away

 


Homework schedule

Homework will usually be due at 11:59 PM; the day of the week varies, so you should check each individual assignment to be sure. General homework policies are here.

This homework schedule is tentative and subject to change at the instructor’s discretion.

Link

  

Assigned

  

Due

Assignment 1

  

Thu 01/14

  

Wed 01/20

Assignment 2

  

Mon 01/25

  

Wed 02/03

Assignment 3

  

Thu 02/04

  

Sat 02/13

Assignment 4

  

Wed 02/17

  

Wed 02/24

Assignment 5

  

Wed 02/24

  

Fri 03/04

Assignment 6

  

Fri 03/04

  

Wed 03/23

Assignment 7

  

Thu 03/24

  

Wed 04/06

Assignment 8

  

Thu 04/07

  

Wed 04/20

Extra credit

  

Wed 04/20

  

Wed 04/27


Course policies

Collaboration and academic integrity

You may not collaborate with anyone on any of the exams. You may not use any electronic tools, including phones, tablets, netbooks, laptops, desktop computers, etc. If in doubt, ask a member of the course staff.

Some homework assignments will be completed with an assigned partner, and some may involve a larger team (TBD). You must collaborate with your assigned partner or team, as specified, on homework assignments. You may request help from any staff member on homework. (When you are working with a partner, we strongly recommend that you request help with your partner.) You may use the Piazza bulletin board to ask questions regarding assignments, so long as your questions (and answers) do not reveal information regarding solutions. You may not get any help from anyone else on a homework assignment; all material submitted must be your own. If in doubt, ask a member of the course staff.

Providing illicit help to another student is also cheating, and will be punished the same as receiving illicit help. It is your responsibility to safeguard your own work.

Students who cheat will be reported to the university’s office on academic integrity and penalized by the course staff, at our discretion, up to and including failing the course.

If you are unclear on any of these policies, please ask a member of the course staff.

Homework

In general, you should submit your homework according to the instructions on the web page for the individual assignments.

Submitting by email

Homework will ordinarily be submitted to the CS 3500 submission server at https://cs3500.ccs.neu.edu. However, sometimes (detailed below) it may be necessary to submit by email. In this case, email your instructor with the subject line “HW N submission” (where N is the appropriate homework number). Attach your source files to the email individually; do not use a ZIP file or other kind of archive.

Submission troubles

If you have trouble submitting to the server and you have time before the deadline, please wait few minutes and try again; it may also be worth checking on Piazza to find out whether other students are experiencing similar difficulties. If upon retrying you still cannot submit, email Dr. Lerner (blerner@ccs). Or if you don’t have time to try again then you should submit by email.

Late days & late work

Each student gets four free, no-questions-asked late days for the term. The purpose of late days is make the extension process fair and transparent by getting the instructors out of the extension-granting business entirely. Instead, when you need an extension, you can take one—provided you have a late day remaining.

To use a late day, email Dr. Lerner with your CCS username and how many late days you want to use. Once you get an acknowlegment email, you can submit on the server as normal. If you submit within 24 hours of the deadline and you have at least one late day remaining, you will use one late day. If you submit 24 to 48 hours after the deadline and have at least two late days remaining, you will use two. If you submit more than 48 hours after the deadline or if you have insufficient late days remaining to cover your lateness then your homework will not be accepted. Conserve your late days carefully.

No more than two late days may be used on any one assignment. You may not look at and must avoid gaining knowledge of the self-evaluation questions until you have submitted your late assignment. Late days cannot be divided fractionally, but must be used whole. Late days cannot be transferred to or shared with a partner, so in order to take an extension both you and your partner must have sufficient late days remaining. Choose your partners carefully.

Using a late day to submit your files does not automatically grant you a late day for the self-eval: it will remain due at the normal time. This implies that using two entire late days on the homework files, and submitting at midnight two days late, will leave you no time for your self eval, and your homework will be incomplete and not accepted. You may request a late day for the self-eval, in the same manner as above: email Dr. Lerner with the request, and upon acknowlegement, complete your self-eval as normal. Use your time wisely.

Grades

Your grade will be based on your performance on the problem sets (60%) and the exams (15%, 25%). Material for examinations will be cumulative. There will be no final exam.

The mapping of raw point totals to letter grades is at the discretion of the instructor.


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