Lecturer Pearce

Office Hours TR 12:00 - 1:00, 4:30 - 5:30 in 213 Macquarrie Hall
Phone: (408) 924-5065
Email: pearce@cs.sjsu.edu
URL: www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/pearce/pearce.html

Lectures TR 10:30 - 11:45 in MH 422

Text A library of on-line books for this course is available at www.safariu.com

Hardware You will need to have a laptop with Internet connectivity. You will need to bring your laptop to some of the classes.

Software You will need to download and install the latest implementation of the J2SE 5.0 platform specification, which is JDK 5.0. Don't download JRE 5.0 as this doesn't include any development tools. You also won't need the NetBeans IDE. Also be sure to download the documentation for J2SE 5.0. All of these downloads are available at:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

It might also be a good idea to have a decent text editor. I like TextPad for Windows platforms. A trial version can be downloaded from:

http://www.textpad.com/

Finally, you will need an IDE. Some projects may require students to write plug-ins for the Eclipse IDE, which is available at:

http://www.eclipse.org/

Prerequisites Working knowledge of UML and Java.

Grading Grades will be determined by approximately six to eight programming assignments (50%), one midterm (20%), and a final exam (30%). Late assignments are accepted by prior arrangement only.

Objectives  Basic skills and concepts of computer programming in an object-oriented language. Classes, methods and argument passing, control structures, iteration and recursion. Basic graphical user interface programming. Problem solving, class discovery and step-wise refinement. Programming and documentation style.

Outcomes At the end of the course students should be able to:

Analyze existing designs

Apply refactoring techniques to improve existing designs

Create high quality designs for client and server-side applications using design patterns and UML

Intelligently discuss design philosophies.

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