Announcements

December 6, 2004

• XOOGA Final Presentations --- food will be provided
  All relevant materials must be submitted to me by 5pm, Wednesday December 8
  In-class presentations begin at 7pm tonight in LSRC D243

December 1, 2004

• Current Assignment
  • XOOGA, email me your choice about how you want to present your final project (either as code or a detailed design document) on Thursday, December 2

November 29, 2004

• Current Reading
  • Software Categories by The Free Software Foundation
  • Magic Cauldron by Eric Raymond
  • Good Enough Software by James Bach
• Current Assignment
  • XOOGA, Design Document, Version 2.0, due Tuesday, November 30

November 22, 2004

• Current Reading
  • Threads and Custom Networking from the Java Tutorial
• Current Assignment
  • XOOGA, Design Presentation, due Tuesday, November 23

November 15, 2004

• Current Reading
  • The Reflection API and Drawing 2D from the Java Tutorial
• Current Assignment
  • XOOGA, Design Document, Version 1.0, due Thursday, November 18
    Read this to help you develop your design document

November 12, 2004

• Current Assignment
  • XOOGA, Design Document, Version 1.0, due Thursday, November 18
    Find out which group you are in here

November 5, 2004

• Current Reading
  • Chapters 1-3 in The Power of Frameworks, by Taligent (handout)
  • Unidraw: A Framework for Building Domain-Specific Graphical Editors, by John Vlissides
• Current Assignments
  • Wowser-Browser, Individual Reflection, due Wednesday, November 10
  • XOOGA, Team Preferences, due Wednesday, November 10
    Please email me a team of five people with whom you would like to work.
  • XOOGA, First Deliverable, due Friday, November 12

November 5, 2004

• Current Assignment
  • Wowser-Browser, Final Version, due Monday, November 8
    Find out which group you are in here

November 1, 2004

• Current Assignment
  • Wowser-Browser, Version 1.0, due Thursday, November 4
    Find out which group you are in here.

October 27, 2004

• Current Assignment
  • Wowser-Browser, Version 0.1, due Friday, October 29
    Find out which group you are in here.

October 22, 2004

• Current Reading (handouts)
  • Chapter 11 from Design Heuristics by Arthur Riel
  • Chapter 2 in Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides (the "gang of four")
  • Chapters 10-11 from Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck
  • Chapters 12-13 from Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
• Current Assignment
  • OOLALA design quiz , due Monday, October 25
    Please submit individually using the name oolala_quiz
  • Wowser-Browser partner preferences, due Monday, October 25
    Please email to me at rcd@cs.duke.edu

October 18, 2004

• Current Reading
  • Chapters 7-9 from Core Java, by Cay Horstmann
  • Chapters 11-13 from Design Patterns Explained, by Alan Shalloway and James Trott
  • User Interfaces that Swing and Using Swing Components from the Java Tutorial
  • Observer and Observable by Todd Sundsted

October 13, 2004

• Current Reading
  • Chapters 1-3, 5-7 from Big Java, by Cay Horstmann
    (or some other Java reference book)
  • Comparing C++ and Java by Bruce Eckel
  • Learning the Java Language, Collections, Handling Errors, Reading and Writing, and Packages from the Java Tutorial

• Current Assignment
  • Animals, due Monday, October 18

October 6, 2004

• Current Reading
  • Managing the End for New Beginnings: Post Project Reviews by Lou Russell, Russell Martin & Associates
     
• Current Assignment
  • OOLALA, Analysis, due Friday, October 8
    Each student must submit their own analysis of the project

October 4, 2004

• Current Assignment
  • OOLALA, Version 3.0, due Wednesday, October 6
    Find out which group you are in here.

October 1, 2004

• Current Reading
  • Student's view of Prolog: Prolog for Hackers
  • Tutorial on Turtle Graphics

• Current Assignment
  • OOLALA, Version 2.0, due Sunday, October 3

September 27, 2004

• OOLALA, Version 1.0, deadline extended to Monday, September 27

September 24, 2004

• Current Reading
  • Chapters 8, 10, 13, 14 of Design Patterns Explained by Shalloway and Trott
  • Chapters 3 and 8 of The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

  • Foundation Patterns by Dwight Deugo

• Current Assignment
  • OOLALA, Version 1.0, due Sunday, September 26

September 22, 2004

• Current Assignment
  • OOLALA, Version 0.2, due Thursday, September 23

September 18, 2004

• Current Reading
  • Chapters 8, 10, 13, 14 of Design Patterns Explained by Shalloway and Trott
     
• Current Assignment
  • OOLALA, Version 0.1, due Tuesday, September 21
    Find out which group you are in here. 

September 15, 2004

• Current Reading
  • Chapters 1, 3-5 of Design Patterns Explained by Shalloway and Trott

September 10, 2004

• Check out your peer review groups for OOWS. Friday's class will be a code review session.
• Current Assignment
  • OOWS, version 3.0 is due Monday, September 13.

September 6, 2004

• Current Reading
  • Chapters 1 and 2 of The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
  • Chapters 1 and 2 of Peer Reviews in Software by Karl Wiegers
     
• Current Assignment
  • OOWS, version 2.0 is due Thursday, September 9.
    The sooner you turn it in, the sooner you will be assigned to a group for Friday's code review session.

September 1, 2004

• Current Assignment
  • OOWS, version 1.0 is due Monday, September 6
     
• Current Reading
  • Overview of STL Components, Chapter 2 of STL Tutorial and Reference Guide by David Musser
  • Programming with the STL, Chapter 7 of More Effective C++ by Scott Meyers

August 27, 2004

• Check out the instructions for downloading the new version of Eclipse. In addition to Ambient, you will also need to update Eclipse using the update manager to include CDT, C++ Development Tools, using the URL: http://update.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/new
   
• Current Reading
  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
  • Code Smells Discussion based on article by Martin Fowler
  • The Open Closed Principle by Robert Martin
  • Tell, Don't Ask by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
  • Self Documenting Code, Chapter 19 of Code Complete by Steve McConnell

August 25, 2004

• Starting Friday, class will be in a new room, LSRC D243, and at a new time, 10:05am.
   
• Current Assignments
  • Introductions, due Friday, August 27
  • Animals, due Monday, August 30

August 23, 2004

• Welcome to CPS 108!
• This website complements what you experience in class.
  Course announcements will be posted on this web page and may also be announced in class. You are responsible for all material that appears here and should check for updates frequently. 
• If you are taking this course, chances are you are qualified to be an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) for one of our introductory courses (CPS 1, 6, 6X, or 100). If you want to help your fellow students, get more involved in the department, or just learn more about computer science, then sign up to be a UTA online here.