CS 340 - Software Design

Spring 2006

Course Syllabus

Exams

• The Final will be held on:
  • Friday May 5, 2006
  • 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
  • 238 SES

• The midterm exam will be held in class on Thursday, 3/9/2006.
  You are allowed 2 sides of 8.5x11 inch notes.

Programming Assignments and Critiques

• MP 1 - Due 1/26/2006 at 11:59 pm
• MP 2 - Due 2/9/2006 at 11:59 pm
• MP 3 - Due 2/28/2006 at 11:59 pm
• MP 4 - Due 3/27/2006 at 11:59 pm
• MP 5 - Due 4/10/2006 at 11:59 pm
• MP 6 - Due 4/27/2006 at 11:59 pm

• Critique 1 - Due 2/14/2006 in class
• Critique 2 - Due 2/21/2006 in class
• Critique 3 - Due 3/29/2006 in class
• Critique 4 - Due 4/5/2006 in class

Useful Links

• Some C/C++ Examples
• C++ Library Reference
• Standard Template Library Programmer' s Guide
• An Online C++ Book
• Notes from Prof. Buy's Lecture

• Some Java Examples
• Alphabetical listing of Java 1.5 Library Classes

• Blackboard at UIC
• Prof. Reed's Java Notes
• Using Java 1.5 on the CS Machines
• CS ICL (Instructional Computer Lab) Main Page

• Java Collection Classes
  • Prof. Reed's Notes on the Java Collections Classes
  • Java Sun's Page on the Collections Framework
  • Java Sun Collection Classes Tutorial Table of Contents

• Some Java Tutorials
  • Java Sun Tutorial Page
  • Java Tutorial - Swing User Interface Table of Contents
  • Java Tutorial - How to Make Dialogs
  • Java Tutorial - How to Write a Mouse Listener
  • Java Tutorial - How to Write a Key Listener

• Some Java Downloads
  • Java Compiler
    Download J2SE 5.0 (also called J2SE 5.0 SDK). This comes in different flavors, so you'll want to choose the second one down entitled
             "JDK 5.0 Update 6"
    I recommend that you don't select the first one that has Netbeans bundled with it.
    Once you follow this link, you will get to a page where you will need to click on a button to accept the License agreement, then select the first option which is "Windows Offline Installation, Multi-language " for a size of 56.71 MB (don't do this unless you've got a fast network connection at home)
    

  • Eclipse
    This is a nice Integrated Development Environment (IDE). For Eclipse, download the latest version (3.2M1 as of this writing) from
              http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads

  • Downloadable book
    Thinking in Java, 3rd Ed. by Bruce Eckel