Tentative list of course topics

These topics are listed here in no particular order. The weekly schedule organizes these topics chronologically.

Data Structures

• Linear vs. nonlinear
• Indexing vs. nonindexing
• Position vs. value-oriented
  

Advanced Java

• Interfaces
• Inheritance
• Object as superclass
• Annotations
• Exceptions
• Enumerations
  
• Generics
• Collections
• Boxing/Unboxing
• Array Objects

Object Modeling

• UML
• Use Cases and Activity Diagrams
• Class Diagrams
• Archetypes
• Interaction Diagrams

Design

• Design by Contract
• Interfaces
• Refactoring and Generalization
• Patterns
• Core Patterns
• Adapter
• Decorator
• Composite
• Strategy
• Iterator
• Abstract Factory
• Visitor
  
• Java's Event Listener
• Observer/Obervable

Agile Development Process

• Evolutionary design
• Test-driven development
• Unit testing
• Mock objects
  
• Continuous refactoring
• Continuous integration
• Automatic Building
• Managed Ant Projects in Eclipse
• Managed Maven Projects in Eclipse
• JAR files and Build Products

Tools

• Eclipse
• Subversion
• JUnit
• JMock or EasyMock
  
• EclEmma
• Ant
• Java Web Start and JNLP

Techniques

• Object Pooling
• Garbage Collection
• Performance Profiling (NetBeans)