TeachJava 2005
Tentative Schedule of Topics: June 27- July 1, 2005

• Break times will be from 10:00 AM-10:20 AM and 3:00 PM-3:20 PM every day.
• Lunch is from 12:00-1:00 PM in DH 3076 on Mon., Tue., Wed. and Fri. and in DH 1049 on Thur.

Monday:

• Welcome and introduction
  • From C++ to Java
  • Guiding vision
  • Data-directed program design
  • Data abstractions as structural design patterns
  • What is an object?
  • Java primer
  • Intro to DrJava
• Abstraction: Fundamental Thinking Tool
• Pizza: A Simple OO Model
• DrJava introduction
• Super-mini Java primer
• JUnit testing

Tuesday:

Component frameworks for data structures:

• Immutable lists
  • Abstract Structure
  • Composite Design Pattern
• DrJava Project facility
• What is an algorithm on a list?
  • Interpreter pattern
  • Recursion
  • Interfaces
  • Play-acting & More List Algorithms

Wednesday:

• Component frameworks for data structures, continued...
  • Decoupling algorithms from data structures
    • Abstract Behavior
    • Separation of Variant and Invariant
    • Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Behaviors
    • Visitor Design Pattern
    • More visitor examples
  • The deadly if statement

   

Thursday:

• More visitor pattern material
• Using the command pattern to represent behavior as data
• Inner classes
• Javadocs, packages and jar files
• Does it all depend on the list implementation?
  • Abstract Construction
  • Factory design pattern
  • Examples
• Component frameworks for data structures, continued...
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  • Mutable Lists
  1. Introduction to the State Design Pattern
  2. State Design Pattern and Mutable Lists
  3. LRStruct implementation
  4. Visitors to LRStruct : OOT vs. NOOT

Friday:

• Marine Biology Simulation. Since the Marine Biology Simulation is in active use as a class assignment, this material is now password-protected. Please contact the organizers to obtain access.
• Java GUI programming
  • Frames and layouts
  • Buttons, adapters and event handlers

   

   

   

Copyright 2005 Robert Cartwright, Dung Nguyen and Stephen Wong