COM1204 Summer 2002 -- Object-Oriented Design

Professor Futrelle -- College of Computer Science, Northeastern U., Boston, MA

(Updated Monday 6/24/2002)

Introduction

Dr. Dobbs Journal has a page on Patterns and OO Design.

Here's a page, What Makes A Good Object-Oriented Design?, at the OOTips site.

Here's an entire on-line course on Object-Oriented Software Design and Construction with Java at Virginia Tech, by Dr. Dennis Kafura.

UML, a diagrammatic design notation

Here is a course page on these techniques.

Design Patterns

Software design patterns are supposed to capture pre-existing techniques that have worked. But the "Patterns" movement goes far beyond the practical in many cases, so be careful -- it merges into general issues of the philosophy of design. You may want to look at this extensive page by Brad Appleton.

Here is a set of lectures on Patterns (from the Technion in Israel)

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