December 9, 2022

• Readings for thought and fun
  • True Programmers Never Stop Learning by Thibaud Jobert
  • Dark Side of Software Development by Vibali Joshi
  • Defending Democracy (and US!) from Big Tech, 3 podcast episodes by Bob Sullivan with Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy and the Keenan Institute for Ethics
  • The API-First World, a comic book from Postman
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal, OOGA, Final Analysis, due Sunday, December 18 (effectively 3:07am EDT Monday morning)

December 4, 2022

• Complete Duke's Course Evaluation — every voice matters!
• Current Readings
  • Four Pillars of Object Oriented Programming by Ben Jacobs
  • What Is Software Engineering? from Software Engineering at Google by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright
    preview also includes these good and relevant chapters: How to Work Well on Teams and Engineering for Equity
  • Java at 25: Features that made an impact and a look to the future an interview with Georges Saab, Vice President of Software Development at Oracle’s Java Platform Group
  • Do Programmers Need a Code of Conduct interview with Robert Martin and his talk The Future of Programming
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal, Teamwork Reflection, due Friday, December 9 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)
  • Project, OOGA, Complete Sprint due on Monday, December 12 (effectively 3:07am EDT Tuesday morning)
  • Project, OOGA, Final Demo due on Thursday, December 15 by noon

November 28, 2022

• Current Readings
  • Small Pieces, Loosely Coupled from The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Raymond
  • Refactoring with Loops and Collection Pipelines by Martin Fowler
  • Maven: A Build Automation Tool for Java by Aman Singh
  • Towards Ethics by Default, One Step at a Time by Vitaly Friedman
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal, Improvement Reflection, due Friday, December 2 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)
  • Project, OOGA, Sprint 2 due on Monday, December 5 (effectively 3:07am EDT Tuesday morning)

November 18, 2022

• Frederick Brooks, died yesterday. Tributes are pouring in the celebration of his contribution and life.
  He was a "true icon":
  • pioneering software architect
  • Turing Award winner
  • author of the The Mythical Man-Month and The Design of Design
  • Duke graduate
  • UNC professor, founder of their CompSci department (after being rebuffed by Duke)

November 14, 2022

• Current Readings
  • Dependency Injection Pattern by Martin Fowler
  • Java Logging Best Practices by Rafal Kuć
  • Refactoring to Patterns (Introduction) by Joshua Kerievsky
  • Foundation Patterns by Dwight Deugo
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal, Ethics (Applied), due Friday, November 18 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)
  • Project, OOGA, Sprint 1 due on Monday, November 21 (effectively 3:07am EDT Tuesday morning)

November 7, 2022

• Current Readings
  • Introduction to Design Patterns (Chapter 5 from Design Patterns Explained) by Alan Shalloway and James Trott
  • Composition vs. Inheritance by Bill Venners
  • The Magic of Data Driven Design by Steve Rabin from Game Programming Gems
  • Gitlab: Always Start with an Issue by Heather McNamee
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal, Ethics (Professional), due Friday, November 11 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)
  • Project, OOGA, Test due on Monday, November 14 (effectively 3:07am EDT Tuesday morning)

October 31, 2022

• Current Readings
  • Bumper-Sticker API Design by Joshua Bloch
  • Agile Project Management by Isidora Markovic
  • Introducing OO Frameworks by Taligent
  • Teamwork is an Individual Skill by Christopher Avery
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal, Cell Society Project Analysis, due Friday, November 4 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)
  • Project, OOGA, Plan due on Monday, November 7 (effectively 3:07am EDT Tuesday morning)

October 24, 2022

• Current Readings
  • Why Java Interfaces Are So Very Cool (Chapter 17 from Java Garage) by Eben Hewitt
  • From STUPID to SOLID by William Durand
  • Make an Immutable Object in Java by Gunnar Gissel
  • Why Getters and Setters are Evil by Allen Holub
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal, Teamwork Reflection, due Friday, October 28 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)
  • Project, Cell Society, Change due on Sunday, October 30 (effectively 3:07am EDT Monday morning)

October 17, 2022

• Current Readings
  • Liskov Substitution Principle by Robert Martin
  • It All Comes Down to Respecting Levels of Abstraction by Jonathan Boccara
  • Reflection from Oracle's Java Tutorial
  • Lambda Expressions from Oracle's Java Tutorial
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal, Testing Reflection, due Friday, October 21 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)
  • Project, Cell Society, Basic due on Monday, October 24 (effectively 3:07am EDT Tuesday morning)

October 12, 2022

• Java 19 was released last month as well as OpenJFX 19
  • No significant public changes made, mostly just internal changes to make running computations in parallel more efficient
  • Upgrading is NOT recommended since we have not had a chance to test them in IntelliJ yet
• Current Readings
  • Model-View-Controller from Head First Design Patterns by Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra, Eric Freeman, and Elisabeth Robson
  • Interface Separation Principle by Robert Martin
  • Commonality and Variability in Software Engineering by James Coplien, Daniel Hoffman, and David Weiss
  • Managing Conflict and Project Teams and Problematic Behavior in Project Teams from the Group Project Survival Guide resource from Babson College (videos)
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal, OOLALA Project Analysis, due Saturday, October 15 (effectively 3:07am EDT Sunday morning)
  • Project, Cell Society, Plan and Test due on Monday, October 17 (effectively 3:07am EDT Tuesday morning)

October 7, 2022

• Have a good BREAK!

October 3, 2022

• Current Readings
  • Dependency Inversion Principle by Robert Martin
  • How to Throw Exceptions in Java from Rollbar
  • Designing with Exceptions by Bill Venners
  • A Systematic Approach to Write Better Code With OOP Concepts by Muhammad Umair
  • Enumerated Types from Oracle's Java Tutorial
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Project, OOLALA, Refactoring Changes due on Friday, October 7 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)

September 26, 2022

• Current Readings
  • Open-Closed Principle by Robert Martin
  • JUnit Test Infected by Kent Beck and using TDD with IntelliJ
  • User Interface Testing with TestFX by Adam Carroll (focus on the ideas, not the exact details)
  • Records from Oracle's Java Language Updates Report
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal, Ethics in the News, due Friday, September 30 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)
  • Project, OOLALA, App 2 due on Monday, October 3 (effectively 3:07am EDT Tuesday morning)

September 19, 2022

• Current Readings
  • JUnit Test Infected by Kent Beck and using TDD with IntelliJ
  • Git Branching from Pro Git book by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub
  • JavaFX, sections 4-5 from Core Java by Cay Horstmann
  • Effective Teamwork in Student Groups from the Group Project Survival Guide resource from Babson College (videos)
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal, Starting a Big Project, due Friday, September 23 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)
  • Project, OOLALA, App 1 due on Monday, September 26 (effectively 3:07am EDT Tuesday morning)

September 12, 2022

• TA Mentors will be determined this week, so plan to schedule a meeting with your assigned UTA by Sunday
  TAs will not hold additional regular Office Hours this semester, instead meeting with you individually
  Use the ED Q&A Board to ask general questions and talk to me or your team mates to ask specific questions
• Current Readings
  • Single Responsibility Principle by Robert Martin
  • Object-Oriented Software Development: Inheritance and Polymorphism by Rick Mercer
  • Access Control (Encapsulation) from Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel
  • Refactoring: Replace Conditional with Polymorphism from Refactoring by Martin Fowler
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal, Habits and Teamwork due Friday, September 16 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)
  • Project, Breakout Game, Part 3 due Sunday, September 18 (effectively 3:07am EDT Monday morning)

September 9, 2022

• Complete this online survey about your weekly availability and attitude towards group projects
  Teams for projects will be chosen for you based on you schedule compatibility

September 3, 2022

• Current Readings
  • Chapter 1 from Clean Code by Robert Martin
  • OO in One Sentence by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
  • Code Smells by K. Beck and M. Fowler (Chapter 3 from Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code)
  • Refactoring: Extract Class from Refactoring by Martin Fowler
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal, Ethics and Failure due Friday, September 9 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)
  • Project, Breakout Game, Part 2 due Sunday, September 11 (effectively 3:07am EDT Monday morning)

August 29, 2022

• Welcome to CompSci 307!
  • This website is your primary portal to the course: you are responsible for all material that appears here and should check for updates frequently
  • Please help us make this course as useful as possible for you by letting someone on the Teaching Team know as soon as possible if something is not working for you
• We will follow Duke's COVID Safety Protocol
  • You are expected to wear a mask in the classroom
  • If you test positive for COVID, do not attend class, instead submit a Incapacitation Form
• Current Readings
  • Everything is an Object from Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel
  • Debugging from The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt
  • JavaFX, sections 1-3 from Core Java by Cay Horstmann
  • A Visual Guide to Version Control using GIT (or as videos)
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Before class on Wednesday, download and install the current versions of the software for the course
    If you run into trouble, you can get help during class on Wednesday and during Office Hours
    
  • Journal, CompSci Autobiography due Friday, September 2 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)
  • Project, Breakout Game, Part 1 due Sunday, September 4 (effectively 3:07am EDT Monday morning)