CS 340 - Software Design

Spring 2013

Call #: 17424

• Syllabus for Spring Semester 2013

Meeting Times

Days	Time	Location
Monday	10:00 - 10:50 am	LC A7
Tuesday, Thursday	9:30 - 10:45 am	B6 BH

People

Who	Office	Office Hours	Contact
Pat Troy	919 SEO	Monday 11:00 - 12:00 Tuesday, Thursday 12:30 - 1:30 or by appointment	troy AT uic DOT edu
Yile Wang	1306 SEO	Wednesday and Friday 12:30 to 1:50 or by appointment	ywang203 AT uic DOT edu

Text Books

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• Texts Used in the Course
  • C++ for Java Programmer, by Mark Allen Weiss, Pearson Prentice Hall Publishing, ISBN: 0-13-919424-X
  • C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4, by Blanchette and Summerfield, Prentice Hall Pulb, ISBN: 978-0-13-235416-5

Exams

• Exam 1 - Thursday 2/28 During Class
• Exam 2 - Thursday 4/4 During Class
• Final Exam - Wednesday 5/8/2013, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, in BH-B6

Assignments

We will be using Qt Version 4.8.4 for the assignments for this semester. The downloads page can be found at http://qt-project.org/downloads. Please note that Version 4.8.4 is NOT the first version shown on that page. You will need to scroll down to get to version 4.8.4.

If you are using the Windows Operating System, please choose the MinGW branch, http://releases.qt-project.org/qt4/source/qt-win-opensource-4.8.4-mingw.exe. You may need to install the compiler MinGW separately ( http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started ).

Qt Creator is available at: http://origin.releases.qt-project.org/qtcreator/

• Spring 2013 Assignment Page

Useful Links

• Lecture Notes

• Blackboard at UIC

• Some C/C++ Examples
• Qt Information and Examples
• Qt Examples - Spring 2012
• C++ Library Reference
• Standard Template Library Programmer' s Guide
• Code from "C++ for Java Programmers" by Weiss
• Lectures by Kip Irvine based on "C++ for Java Programmers"
• Explanation of C++ keyword const

-- Main.troy - 2013-01-11