Computer Science 420 - Spring 2008

last updated January 10, 2008

This page is a course resource for David Hutchens's section of CS 420 which meets Tuesday (Roddy 147) and Thursday (Roddy 136), 10:00-11:50.

Text

There is no required textbook for this course.

Major Resources

• Course Information
• Schedule
• Syllabus

Assignments

Team Project

• Eck's Online Java Text
• Eclipse development environment
• Eclipse API documentation (especially swt.widgets)
• Univ. of Manitoba tutorials on Eclipse and SWT
• How to Write Comments for Javadoc

Most Useful Resources

Links Related to the Course

• SE Online a reviewed resource center for software engineering (glossary at top)
• SWEBOK Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
• FAQs of comp.software-eng some questions and answers of software engineering terms
• Extreme Programming: A Gentle Introduction
• History of Iterative Development
• UML (Unified Modelling Language) and Class Diagrams: Artiso Visual Case and Object Mentor (PDF)
• Object Management Group many UML resources
• Law of Demeter OOD style guideline
• Brad Appleton's design pattern history and resources
• Object Mentor's Bowling example of test-derived extreme programming
• Risk Management Overview from SEI
• Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems current news and archives
• Steve McConnell's Software Engineering, Not Computer Science

I am referring to many texts and resources including

• Fundamentals of Software Engineering, 2nd Edition, Ghezzi, Jazayeri, and Mandrioli, Prentice Hall, 2003.
• Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Practical Software Development using UML and Java, 2nd edition. Timothy C. Lethbridge and Robert Laganiere. ISBN 0-07-710908-2. (US ISBN 0-07-322034-5)
• Balancing Agility and Discipline, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner, Addison-Wesley, 2004. ISBN 0-321-18612-5. You may see snippets of this book at informit.com including the Prelude which is given in its entirety.
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissades (Gang of Four), Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-633612.
• Object-Oriented Design and Patterns, Cay Horstmann, Wiley, 2004. ISBN 0-471-31966-X.

• Sun's Java Tutorial
• Sun's Java Swing Tutorial
• Eclipse development environment we'll be using
• Univ. of Manitoba tutorials on Eclipse and SWT
• JUnit: A Cook's Tour
• Eck's Online Java Text
• SGI's C++ Standard Template Library reference
• XML.com

• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
• Retrocomputing Museum lots of solid but sometimes bizarre computing history
• DeCSS haiku of how to decode a DVD expressed as haiku poetry, but this site provides more background and context

Some other Useful Things

• Style Guidelines
• Helpful extra things
• Various tutorials

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