| CompSci 308 Spring 2025 |
Advanced Software Design and Implementation |
April 21, 2025
- Final Demos will take place on Friday, May 2 from 2-5pm, in our classroom, LSRC room B101:
- Each team will have 30 minutes to present
- The project code should be frozen Sunday night, so that week focus your presentation preparation on showing the functionality and flexibility of the project through example games
- You are expected to attend (like a final exam), however, if you cannot, you must email me a video before class that shows:
- a demo of your part of the project
- an explanation of your API(s) and how it is open to extension, how it contributes to the whole project, and why you believe it is a good design as well as what you personally learned about teamwork from this project
- Readings
- Four Pillars of Object Oriented Programming by Ben Jacobs
- Extreme (Programming) Thoughts by Ron Jeffries
- Do Programmers Need a Code of Conduct interview with Robert Martin and his talk The Future of Programming
- The API-First World, a comic book from Postman
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Journal: Final Teamwork Review, due by Friday, April 25 (effectively 3:08am ET Saturday morning)
- Project: OOGASalad - Sprint Complete, due Sunday, April 27 (effectively 3:08am Monday morning)
- Project: OOGASalad - Demo, due Friday, May 2 by 2pm (start of Final Exam time slot)
- Journal: Project Analysis, due by Sunday, May 4 (effectively 3:08am ET Monday morning)
April 14, 2025
- Complete Duke's Course Evaluation — every voice matters!
- Technical Guides
- Troubleshooting vs Debugging by Ben Putano
- Sociologic Skill Readings
- Accessible Design Means Better Design from McKinsey Design
- The Moral Compass from The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt
- Engineering for Equity from Software Engineering at Google by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Journal: Improvement Assessment, due by Friday, April 18 (effectively 3:08am ET Saturday morning)
April 7, 2025
- Design Principle Readings
- Basics of Unix Philosophy, What Should Be Configurable? from The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Raymond
- Technical Guides
- The Ultimate Guide on DevOps by Meredith Courtemanche, Emily Mell, and Alexander Gillis
- Sociologic Skill Readings
- Upcoming Deadlines
April 1, 2025
- Happy April Fools Day!
Historical Tech company April Fools gags - Technical Guides
- Functional Programming in Java by Venkat Subramaniam
- Refactoring with Loops and Collection Pipelines by Martin Fowler
- Sociologic Skill Readings
- Mental Health in Software Engineering by Vadim Kravcenko
- Dark Side of Software Development by Vibali Joshi
- True Programmers Never Stop Learning by Thibaud Jobert
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Journal: Ethics in the News, due Friday, April 4 (effectively 3:08am Saturday morning)
- Project: OOGASalad - Sprint 2, due Wednesday, April 9 (effectively 3:08am Thursday morning)
March 24, 2025
- Java 24 was released last week as well as OpenJFX 24
- Some interesting public features introduced:
FlexiblemainMethod Declaration (fourth preview), Statements Beforesuper(third preview), Primitive Types in Patterns (second preview), Module Import Declarations (second preview) - Upgrading is NOT recommended especially since we have not had a chance to test them in IntelliJ yet
- Some interesting public features introduced:
- Take time to backup your computers and devices regularly, before updgrading, and definitely on March 31, World Backup Day!
- Design Principle Readings
- The Magic of Data Driven Design from Game Programming Gems by Steve Rabin
- Dependency Injection Pattern by Martin Fowler
- Prefer Composition over Inheritance by Dan Scalise
- UI Software Architecture collaboratively authored for MIT's online 6.813 course
- Upcoming Deadlines
March 20, 2025
- Upcoming Deadlines
March 17, 2025
- Design Principle Readings
- Designing a Document Editor from Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
- Introducing OO Frameworks by Taligent
- Technical Guides
- The Structure of Games from Game Design Workshop by Tracy Fullerton
- Sociologic Skill Readings
- Teamwork is an Individual Skill by Christopher Avery
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Journal: Project Analysis, due Friday, March 21 (effectively 3:08am Saturday morning)
March 2, 2025
- Design Principle Readings
- Chapter 2 from Refactoring for Software Design Smells by Girish Suryanarayana, Ganesh Samarthyam, and Tushar Sharma
- Foundation Patterns by Dwight Deugo
- Technical Guides
- Sociologic Skill Readings
- Coding and Coping with ChatGPT by Kevin Workman at Happy Coding
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Project: Cell Society - Presentation, due in-class Thursday, March 6
- Journal: Final Team Review, due Friday, March 7 (effectively 3:08am Saturday morning)
February 25, 2025
- Design Principle Readings
- Interface Separation Principle by Robert Martin
- Technical Guides
- Java Logging Best Practices by Rafal Kuć
- Refactoring to Patterns (Introduction) by Joshua Kerievsky
- Sociologic Skill Readings
February 20, 2025
- NO Lab meeting today due to the weather.
Your assigned TA will contact to schedule a project progress meeting. At least TWO students must be present at the meeting.
February 18, 2025
- Design Principle Readings
- Introduction to Design Patterns (Chapter 5 from Design Patterns Explained) by Alan Shalloway and James Trott
- Dependency Inversion Principle by Robert Martin
- Building bug-free O-O software: An Introduction to Design by Contract from the Eiffel Users group
- Technical Guides
- User Interface Testing with TestFX by Adam Carroll
- Model-View-Controller (MVC) from Head First Design Patterns by Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra, Eric Freeman, and Elisabeth Robson
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Journal: Ethics (Professional), due Friday, February 21 (effectively 3:08am Saturday morning)
- Journal: Ethics (Personal), due by Friday, February 28 (effectively 3:08am Saturday morning)
- Project: Cell Society - Change, due by Tuesday, March 4 (effectively 3:08am Wednesday morning)
February 11, 2025
- Design Principle Readings
- Liskov Substitution Principle by Robert Martin
- Technical Guides
- Why Lamba Expressions from Java SE 8 for the Really Impatient by Cay Horstmann
- Benefits of Immutable Objects by Asankhaya Sharma
- Reflection from the Java Tutorial
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Journal: Midpoint Team Review, due Friday, February 14 (effectively 3:08am Saturday morning)
February 4, 2025
- Design Principle Readings
- Josh Bloch on API Design
- Why Java Interfaces Are So Very Cool (Chapter 17 from Java Garage) by Eben Hewitt
- Sociologic Skill Readings
- Towards Ethics by Default, One Step at a Time by Vitaly Friedman
- Technical Guides
- How to Throw Exceptions in Java from Rollbar Guides
- Designing with Exceptions by Bill Venners
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Journal: Testing, due Friday, February 7 (effectively 3:08am Saturday morning)
- Project: Cell Society - Generalize and Robustness, due by Tuesday, February 18 (effectively 3:08am Wednesday morning)
January 28, 2025
- Design Principle Readings
- Model-View Separation Principle from Applying UML and Patterns by Craig Larman
- Open Closed Principle by Robert Martin
- Sociologic Skill Readings
- Towards Ethics by Default, One Step at a Time by Vitaly Friedman
- Technical Guides
- JavaFX, sections 4-5 from Core Java by Cay Horstmann
- JUnit Test Infected by Kent Beck
- Git Branching and Merging: A Step-By-Step Guide by Jeff Brown
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Journal: Starting and Ethics, due Friday, January 31 (effectively 3:08am Saturday morning)
- Project: Cell Society - Basic and Test, due by Tuesday, February 4 (effectively 3:08am Wednesday morning)
January 23, 2025
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Project: Cell Society - Plan, due by Tuesday, January 28 (effectively 3:08am Wednesday morning)
January 21, 2025
- Mentors will be determined this week, so plan to schedule a meeting with your assigned TA by Sunday
- Design Principle Readings
- Access Control (Encapsulation) from Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel
- Object-Oriented Software Development: Discovery of Inheritance through Generalization by Rick Mercer
- Sociologic Skill Readings
- How to Work Well on Teams from Software Engineering at Google by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright
- Technical Guides
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Journal: Project Analysis, due Friday, January 24 (effectively 3:08am Saturday morning)
January 16, 2025
- 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 14, 2025
- Design Principle Readings
- Chapter 1 from Clean Code by Robert Martin
- OO in One Sentence by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
- 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
- Single Responsibility Principle by Robert Martin
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Journal: Thinking about Habits and Failure, due by Friday, January 17 (effectively 3:08am Saturday morning)
- Project: Breakout - Complete, due by Tuesday, January 21 (effectively 3:08am Wednesday morning)
January 9, 2025
- Welcome to CompSci 308!
- 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 you need help or something is not working for you
- Technical Guides
- JavaFX, sections 1-3 from Core Java by Cay Horstmann
- A Visual Guide to Version Control using GIT (or as videos)
- Markdown Manual: The Web's Simplest Plain-Text Syntax by Matthew Guay
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Before our first class on Thursday if possible, download and install the latest versions of the software to be used in the course
If you run into trouble, you will be able to get help during class and during Office Hours this week
- Journal: CompSci Autobiography, due by Sunday, January 12 (effectively 3:08am Monday morning)
- Project: Breakout - Plan and Starting Code, due by Tuesday, January 14 (effectively 3:08am Wednesday morning)
- Before our first class on Thursday if possible, download and install the latest versions of the software to be used in the course
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