April 19, 2021

• Current Readings
  • Four Pillars of Object Oriented Programming by Ben Jacobs
  • Troubleshooting vs Debugging by Ben Putano
  • 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
  • True Programmers Never Stop Learning by Thibaud Jobert
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal: OOGA - Team Review, due on Friday, April 23 (effectively 3:07am EDT Saturday morning)

April 12, 2021

• Current Readings
  • Small Pieces, Loosely Coupled from The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Raymond
  • Cathedral and Bazaar by Eric Raymond
  • Agile Approach to Architecture by Gene Gotimer
  • From Agile to DevOps to Continuous Delivery: An Evolution in Software Delivery by Steve Brodie
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Project: OOGA - Team Midpoint Report, due by Tuesday, April 13 (effectively 3:08am Wednesday morning)
  • Journal: Improvement Assessment, due by Friday, April 16 (effectively 3:08am ET Saturday morning)

April 5, 2021

• Current Readings
  • ACM Code of Ethics (with commentary)
  • Towards Ethics By Default, One Step At A Time by Vitaly Friedman
  • Functional Programming in Java by Venkat Subramaniam
  • Refactoring with Loops and Collection Pipelines by Martin Fowler
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal: Ethics Essay, due by Friday, April 9 (effectively 3:08am ET Saturday morning)

March 29, 2021

• Current Readings
  • Composition vs. Inheritance by Bill Venners
  • The Magic of Data Driven Design by Steve Rabin from Game Programming Gems
  • Dependency Injection Pattern by Martin Fowler
  • UI Software Architecture collaboratively authored for MIT's online 6.813 course

March 22, 2021

• Current Readings
  • Designing a Document Editor from Design Patterns by E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, and J. Vlissides
  • Introducing OO Frameworks by Taligent
  • Scrum Guide by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland
  • Extreme Programming Practices by Ron Jeffries
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Project: OOGA - Team Contract, due on Thursday, March 25 (effectively 3:08am ET Friday morning)
  • Project: OOGA - Plan, due by Thursday, April 1, 3:30pm ET (class time)
  • Project: OOGA - Sprint 1, due by Thursday, April 8, 3:30pm ET (class time)
    
  • Project: OOGA - Sprint 2, due by Thursday, April 15, 3:30pm ET (class time)
    
  • Project: OOGA - Complete, due by Sunday, April 25 (effectively 3:08am Monday morning)
  • Project: OOGA - Demo, due by Thursday, April 29, 7pm ET (final exam time)
  • Journal: OOGA - Analysis, due by Friday, April 30 (effectively 3:08am Saturday morning)

March 16, 2021

• Current Readings
  • From STUPID to SOLID by William Durand
  • Refactoring to Patterns (Introduction) by Joshua Kerievsky
  • Big Ball of Mud by Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder
  • Foundation Patterns by Dwight Deugo

March 11, 2021

• Current Readings
  • Reflection from the Java Tutorial
  • Lambda Expressions from the Java Tutorial
  • Why Lamba Expressions from Java SE 8 for the Really Impatient by Cay Horstmann
  • User Interface Testing with TestFX by Adam Carroll

March 2, 2021

• Current Readings
  • Introduction to Design Patterns (Chapter 5 from Design Patterns Explained) by Alan Shalloway and James Trott
  • Dependency Inversion Principle by Robert Martin
  • JUnit Test Infected by Kent Beck
  • Part 2 from Student Survival Guide to Managing Group Projects by Stephanie Ludi

February 23, 2021

• Current Readings
  • Josh Bloch Interview on API Design
  • Model-View-Controller (MVC) from Head First Design Patterns by Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra, Eric Freeman, and Elisabeth Robson
  • Designing with Interfaces by Bill Venners
  • Building bug-free O-O software: An Introduction to Design by Contract from the Eiffel Users group
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Project: SLogo - Pre-Team Meeting Preparation Questions, due by Wednesday, February 24 (effectively 3:08am ET Thursday morning)
    Save your own copy of your answers so you can share them with your team mates at the initial planning meeting
  • Project: SLogo - Team Contract, due by Thursday, February 25 (effectively 3:08am ET Friday morning)
  • Project: SLogo - Plan, due by Tuesday, March 2 (effectively 3:08am ET Wednesday morning)
  • Journal: Positive Outcome, due by Thursday, March 4 (effectively 3:08am ET Friday morning)
  • Journal: Reflection, due by Thursday, March 11 (effectively 3:08am ET Friday morning)
  • Project: SLogo - Basic Implementation, due by Friday, March 12 (effectively 3:08am ET Saturday morning)
  • Journal: SLogo - Teamwork Analysis, due by Friday, March 19 (effectively 3:08am ET Saturday morning)
  • Project: SLogo - Complete Implementation, due by Sunday, March 21 (effectively 3:08am ET Monday morning)
  • Journal: SLogo - Analysis, due by Friday, March 26 (effectively 3:08am ET Saturday morning)

February 16, 2021

• Current Readings
  • Liskov Substitution Principle by Robert Martin
  • A Systematic Approach to Write Better Code With OOP Concepts by Muhammad Umair
  • Why Java Interfaces Are So Very Cool (Chapter 17 from Java Garage) by Eben Hewitt
  • Designing with Exceptions by Bill Venners

February 9, 2021

• Current Readings
  • GIT ready: Branching and Merging
  • JavaFX: Making Client Apps Sexy Again! by Terrence Barr
  • Enumerated Types, Generics, and Exceptions from the Java Tutorial
  • Part 1 from Student Survival Guide to Managing Group Projects by Stephanie Ludi
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal: Reflection, due by Thursday, February 11 (effectively 3:08am ET Friday morning)

February 2, 2021

• Mentors will be determined this week, so plan to schedule a meeting with your assigned UTA by Sunday.
• Current Readings
  • Open Closed Principle by Robert Martin
  • Four Pillars of Object Oriented Programming by Ben Jacobs
  • Object-Oriented Software Development: Inheritance and Polymorphism by Rick Mercer
  • Replace Conditional with Polymorphism from Refactoring by Martin Fowler
    
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Project: Cell Society - Pre-Team Meeting Preparation Questions, due by Wednesday, February 3 (effectively 3:08am ET Thursday morning)
    Save your own copy of your answers so you can share them with your team mates at the initial planning meeting
  • Project: Cell Society - Team Contract, due by Thursday, February 4 (effectively 3:08am ET Friday morning)
  • Project: Cell Society - Plan, due by Sunday, February 7 (effectively 3:08am ET Monday morning)
  • Project: Cell Society - Basic Implementation, due by Sunday, February 14 (effectively 3:08am ET Monday morning)
  • Journal: Cell Society - Teamwork Analysis, due by Friday, February 19 (effectively 3:08am ET Saturday morning)
  • Project: Cell Society - Complete Implementation, due by Sunday, February 21 (effectively 3:08am ET Monday morning)
  • Journal: Cell Society - Project Analysis, due by Friday, February 26 (effectively 3:08am ET Saturday morning)

January 26, 2021

• Current Readings
  • Code Smells by Kent Beck and Martin Fowler (Chapter 3 from Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code)
  • Everything is an Object from Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel
  • Extract Class from Refactoring by Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
  • Single Responsibility Principle by Robert Martin
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Journal: First Weekly Reflection, due by Thursday, January 28 (effectively 3:08am ET Friday morning)
  • Complete this online survey about your weekly availability as soon as possible (you may submit it multiple times if your schedule changes by the then of the week)
    Teams for most projects will be chosen for you based on you schedule compatibility

January 21, 2021

• Welcome to CompSci 308!
  • This website is your primary portal to the course and you are responsible for all material that appears here and should check for updates frequently
  • This semester's course will be entirely online — here is my advice for succeeding together
  • 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 you need help or something is not working for you
• Current Readings
  • Chapter 1 from Clean Code by Robert Martin
  • OO in One Sentence by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
  • JavaFX Chapter 13 from Core Java by Cay Horstmann
  • A Visual Guide to Version Control using GIT (or as videos) and GIT Commit Best Practices
• Upcoming Deadlines
  • Before our first meeting if possible, download and install the current versions of the software to be used in the course
    If you run into trouble, you will be able to get help in lab on Thursday (first day of class) and during office hours starting this weekend
    • OpenJDK version 15 (make sure to select the FULL JDK package before starting the download)
    • IntelliJ Ultimate version (free for students if you apply by providing your school email address)
    • GIT (on MacOS you may need to install the Xcode Developer tools, on Windows it comes with a program called Git Shell or can also install a full version of Ubuntu Linux)
  • Journal: CompSci Autobiograhpy, due by Saturday, January 23 (effectively 3:08am ET Sunday morning)
  • Project: Game - Plan, due by Sunday, January 24 (effectively 3:08am ET Monday morning)
  • Project: Game - Implementation, due by Sunday, January 31 (effectively 3:08am ET Monday morning)
  • Journal: Game - Project Analysis, due by Friday, February 5 (effectively 3:08am ET Saturday morning)