Tentative weekly course schedule

Week 1

• overview
• design with interfaces
• Java collections
  
• test-driven development
• JUnit
• reading: online
  

Week 2

• update on required software
  
• test-driven development
• JUnit
• reading: online
  

Week 3

• review of methods inherited from Object
  
• review of data structures including hashing
  
• Java collections
• Java genericity
  
• project discussion
• reading: Effective Java, items 7-11, 28, 30, 34, 38; online
  

Week 4

• quiz 1 (after the lecture)
• design with composition
  
• sorted collections
  
• Strategy pattern
• project discussion
• reading: Effective Java, items 1-6, 23-27; online

Week 5

• discussion of quiz 1
• design patterns
• Strategy pattern
• Iterator pattern
  
• reading: Effective Java, items 31, 33; online
  

Week 6

• quiz 2 (before the lecture)
• Java enumerations
  
• project discussion
• reading: Effective Java, items 10, 29, 32, 37, 38; online
  

Week 7

• quiz 2 discussion
  
• project discussion
• Java inheritance
  
• requirements analysis
  
• modeling: use cases, class diagrams
  
• reading: Effective Java, items 12-18; online
  

Week 8

• quiz 3 (after the lecture)
  
• project discussion
• requirements analysis
  
• modeling: class diagrams
  
• reading: online
  

Week 9

• quiz 3 discussion
  
• project discussion
• Java exceptions
  
• Composite and Decorator patterns
• reading: Effective Java, items 39-47; online
  

Week 10

• project discussion
• modeling tools: ArgoUML
  
• Composite and Decorator patterns
  
• mutability and cloning
  
• modeling: use cases, class diagrams, interaction diagrams
• reading: Effective Java, item 10; online