CS/SWE 332 Updates
Fall 2011

Announcements and updates are listed in reverse chronological order.

December 22: Posted final exam grades on Blackboard. Posted course grades on Patriot Web. Have a good holiday!
December 8: Here is a link to the 2011 Fall Final Exam Schedule.
December 6: Here is the Bloch Item 53 example.
November 29: Posted quiz 12 solutions on Blackboard.
November 29: Posted quiz guide 13.
November 22: Posted quiz guide 12.
November 22: Posted slides for today's lecture on schedule page.
November 18: Posted lecture topic for next Tuesday (Effective C# Item 9.) You may find it helpful to also read Item 6.
November 18: Posted assignments 12 and 13.
November 18: Posted quiz guide 11.
November 16: Sean Flaherty pointed out that the 332 web page didn't have a link to the Java documetation. I've remedied that oversight. Thanks Sean!
November 8: Here is the equals contract example I showed in class today.
November 8: Posted quiz guide 10.
November 3: I'll spend time today talking about C++ Object destruction and also C++ copy/assignment constructors. Userful material for this is in Kak Chapter 11.8 and 11.10. Slides 35 though 53 in Kak 11 cover this material as well.
November 3: Posted quiz guide 9.
In terms of Assignment 9, here is the code for Bloch's Services class. I'll use in lecture to discuss how clients uses the APIs, as well as how clients instantiate instances of Service and/or Provider.
November 1: Posted assigment 10.
October 27: Posted assigment 9.
October 27: Posted quiz guide 8.
October 25: Fixed the typos on slides 16 and 17 of today's lecture. Thanks to Chris W. (slide 16) and Chris P. (slide 17) for the reminder.
October 25: For today's lecture, we'll review Bloch's Item 2 code examples: NutritionFactsTelescoping.java, NutritionFactsBeans.java, and NutritionFactsBuilder.java.
October 21: Posted IStack.java and FlyStack.java on Blackboard. I showed both of these in class yesterday when discussing solutions to Assignment 7. (Thanks to Joey for the reminder about posting!)
October 20: Posted quiz guide 7.
October 20: Posted assigment 8.
October 18: Two more examples for immutability: the List interface, and the CopyOnWriteArrayList class.
October 13: Posted assigment 7.
October 13: Today's examples for immutability are Bloch's Complex example and the Iterator interface. In the former case, we'll focus on the relation of inheritance and immutability.
October 5: Alan Weiderman noticed a bug in the Poly code for add(). It's fixed now. Thanks Alan!
October 5: Added the Blackboard link for the remaining assignments. Due to the late change, I'll be somewhat flexible with when students actually post their Assignment 5 solutions to Blackboard. Thanks for the reminder, Alan and Vivian!
October 5: I've received a number of questions about the "<<" operator. Kak covers usage that is essentially exactly what you need for this assignment in Section 3.7 of his text.
October 4: Posted quiz guide 6.
October 4: Note for those following the C# version of Assignment 5. In addition to using Visual Studio, you also need to download the contracts plugin, or you won't be able to actually run your code contracts.
September 29: For students interested in additional background reading for today's lecture I suggest:
- Test Driven: Practical TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers, Lasse Koskela, Man ning Publications, 2007, ISBN: 1-932394-85-0.
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September 29: Posted quiz guide 5.
September 27: Posted quiz 4 solutions on Blackboard. (Available after the quiz is complete.)
September 27: Added another set of slides for Thursday's lecture.
September 27: I am giving a technical talk at th VerifyATI Test Automation Conference on September 28, so I may miss some or all of my Wednesday office hours this week. I strongly suggest that you check with me, by email, before attempting to meet me on the 28th.
September 22: Sean Flaherty sent in the following about accessing Visual Studio:
The site that I mentioned in class is www.dreamspark.com. It is run by Microsoft and gives students access to full versions of many Microsoft products including Visual Studio 2010 for free.
Thanks Sean!
September 22: Posted quiz guide 4.
September 22: Posted assigments 4 and 5.
September 20: Posted examples for today's AF/RI discussion in class:
LSet.java,
Stack.java,
BoundedQueue.java,
Iterator interface,
ListIterator interface, and
Poly.java.
September 15: Posted quiz guide 3.
September 15: Here are a number of JUnit examples for today's class:
Min.java,
MinTest.java,
SetTheoryTest.java,
ListTheoryTest.java,
Triangle.java,
TriangleParamTest.java,
and
TriangleTheoryTest.java.
In a typical IDE, this is all you need. But if you're running JUnit in a bare shell, you will need the boilerplate test runner as well: AllTests.java.
September 15: Posted additional JUnit slides for today's class.
September 12: Here is a "standard" C++ exception handling example: MinException.cc
September 9: Posted assignment 1 sample solution on Blackboard.
September 8: Posted assigment 3.
September 6: Posted quiz 1 solutions on Blackboard.
September 1: Some students might find the online Java documentation link from Oracle useful.
September 1: Here are two examples for today's class: MinArray.java and MinArray.cc
August 31: Posted quiz 0 responses on Blackboard.
August 30: Posted assigments 1 and 2.
August 30: Posted quiz guides 1 and 2.
August 30: Posted draft schedule,
August 22: Posted initial syllabus

CS/SWE 332 Updates Fall 2011

CS/SWE 332 Updates
Fall 2011