2. Course Outline¶

2.1. Overall Outline of Topics (subject to revision)¶

organization, motivation, introduction (1 week)
- what makes software good?
- requirements: functional vs. nonfunctional
- the importance of testing
basics of object-oriented programming (2 weeks)
- semantics: reference vs. value, equality vs. identity
- types and classes: relationships, polymorphism
- code organization: member access, packages/namespaces
agile development process (1 week)
- overview
- testing
- refactoring
- continuous integration and delivery
object-oriented design principles (2 weeks)
- overview
- SOLID
- designing with interfaces
agile object-oriented modeling (2 weeks)
- main UML diagrams: class, state machine, sequence
- archetypes and colors
software design patterns (2 weeks)
- key patterns from HFDP
- key idioms from EJ3e
concurrent programming (3 weeks)
- events
- threads
- sharing
distributed programming (1 week)
- overview and principles
- connecting to web services