CS 3340 Introduction to Object Oriented Programming and Design (4)   2005

Catalog Description
     Programming in an object-oriented language, using object-oriented 
     techniques and concepts. Classes,  information 
     hiding, inheritance, and polymorphism. Memory management. Parameterized 
     classes. Exception handling. Object-oriented design of programs. 
     Prerequisites: CS 3240, and knowledge of C or C++. 


Topics include: 

    0. Overview of object-oriented software development, including 
    history and goals, phases of development, principles (abstraction, 
    modularity, hierarchy, etc.)
 
    1. Structure and Organization of an Object-Oriented Program. 
    Classes and Objects.

    2. Organization of data in Objects, classes and methods. 
    Instance variables, class variables,  local variables and constants.

    3. Organization of the name space. Packages.

    4. Access controls and  encapsulation.

    5. Methods in classes: class methods and instance methods, 
     method overloading.

    6. Initialization,  static initializers, constructors, constructor chaining.

    7. Memory management, allocation and deallocation of objects. Deallocation 
      alternatives, garbage collection versus explicit deallocation.

    8. Error handling and exceptions.

    9. Relationships among objects and classes, "is-a" "has-a" and "uses"
    relationships. Inheritance, method overriding, and polymorphism. 
    Multiple inheritance versus  interfaces. Aggregation. 
   
    10. Introduction to Object Oriented Design, 
    decomposition of applications into classes and objects.

    11. Event-driven applications. Programming with GUI Objects.

Texts 
    Lyon, Java for Programmers, Pearson
    Horstman & Cornell, Core Java 2, Vol 1, Prentice Hall
    Wang, Java and Object Oriented Progamming, Thompson Learning
    Pender, UML Weekend Crash Course, Wiley