CSE/ECE 668 Winter 2009

Applied Component-Based Software Engineering

Text Books:

C# in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition - Joseph Albahari and Ben Albahari

• Available (and free to OSU students) on-line through OSU-Safari.
• Errata and Comments by Dr. Crawfis

UML Distilled, 3rd Edition, Martin Fowler, Addison-Wesley Professional (optional)

• Available on-line through Safari

Programming .NET Components, 2nd Edition, Juval Lowy, O'Reilly

• Available (and free to OSU students) on-line through OSU-Safari.

Head First Design Patterns, Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra, O'Reilly (2004).

• Available (and free to OSU students) on-line through OSU-Safari.

Grading Policy

Programming assignments 75%

Final Exam (3-15-2009 at 1:30pm) 25%

Schedule (Tentative)

Topics

1. Course Overview and history of Software Engineering
2. Component-based Programming and UML Component diagrams
3. Overview of .NET
4. C# and Visual Studio Overview
5. C# Types 
6. C# Types continued, C# interfaces and the Template Method design pattern
7. C# constructors, the Singleton design pattern, Actuators and Lab1, C# 1.1 containers, type Unification and the IDisposable
8. Visual Studio demo, UML class Diagrams and Visual Studio support, Visual Studio 2008 Unit testing
9. Visual Studio 2008 Unit testing continued, C# Generics
10. Weather Day
11. C# Generics and key .NET interfaces, File I/O
12. Garbage Collection, Iterator Design pattern and .NET Enumeration
13. .NET Enumeration, .NET Collection classes
• System.Collections
• System.Collections.Generic
• System.Collections.ObjectModel
14. Delegates and the Publisher / Subscriber design pattern
15. .NET events, System.Collections.Specialized
16. Lab2, Composite, Factory and Builder design patterns.
17. No class
18. XML, DTD and XSD
19. XML, DTD and XSD, UML Object Diagrams
20. C# and XML
• XmlElement example
• XmlDocument.CreateElement example
21. Equality and Comparisons
22. Extension methods, Anonymous methods, Lambda expressions
23. Attributes
24. Reflection,
25. Serialization
26. Windows Presentation Foundation (Christie's powerpoint slides)
• Routed Events Overview (MSDN)
• Jason Dolinger podcast (long)
27. The Proxy Design Pattern, .NET Remoting
28. The Decorator Design Pattern, LINQ
29. Final Exam review
30. Asynchronous Method calls, Multithreading and concurrency in C#, Refactoring  the Collection classes with an Adaptor Design Pattern (IPriorityCollection), The Decorator design pattern and making thread-safe versions of the IPriorityCollection
31. Final Exam (Study Guide)

Reference Books:

• C# in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition - Joseph Albahari and Ben Albahari
  • Available (and free to OSU students) on-line through OSU-Safari.
  • Errata and Comments by Dr. Crawfis
• Programming C#, 4th Edition - Jesse Liberty
  • Available (and free to OSU students) on-line through OSU-Safari
• Head First Design Patterns, Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra, O'Reilly (2004). (read online)
• Learning XML, 2nd Edition, Erik T. Ray, O'Reilly
• XML Schema, Eric van der Vlist, O'Reilly
• Design Patterns, E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson and J. Vlissides, Addison Wesley
• CLR via C#, 2nd Edition, Jeffrey Richter, Microsoft Press
• Refracting: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, and William Opdyke, Addison-Wesley Professional
• Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET, Dino Esposito, Microsoft Press

Slides

• Introduction to course and components (powerpoint) (pdf-4up)
• The .NET platform and C# (follows the Programming in C# 459 course - see the podcasts for missed lectures)
  • For the next 3-4 weeks we will follow the material there with some additional topics sprinkled in.
  • Classes and Inheritance Slides
  • Template Method design pattern
    • C# design patterns (dofactory.com)
  • Singleton design pattern (see dofactory.com above).
  • File I/O and Garbage Collection (powerpoint)
• UML Object Diagrams

Readings

• Week1 : Read the following:
  • Chapters 1-2 from Programming .NET Components.
  • Chapters 1 (Introduction) and 14 (Component Diagrams) from UML Distilled
  • The two articles from IEEE Software by Steve McConnell:
    • Keep it Simple
    • Missing in Action: Information Hiding
• Week 2 : Read the following:
  • Chapters 1-3 in C# in an Nutshell
  • Chapter 3 (Class Diagrams) from UML Distilled
• Week 3: Read the following:
  • Chapters 1-2 from Programming .NET Components.
  • Chapters 4-5 in C# in an Nutshell
  • Go through my errata for C# in a Nutshell.
• Week 4
• Eric Lippert's Sept. 22, 2008 Blog, Arrays considered somewhat harmful.
• Week 6
  • Chapter 6 from Programming .NET Components.
• Week 7
  • Chapter 6 (Object Diagrams) in UML Distilled
• Week 8
• CodeDome Tutorial Part I, Crawfis

Lab Assignments

• Lab1 - A Simple Scene Graph Hierarchy
  • Start by working on this Worksheet to get you started.
• Lab2 - Creating and Reading Scene Graphs using serialization
  • Continue from your Lab1.
• Lab3 - Adding documentation, unit testing and creating UML diagrams
• Lab4 - Plug-In architectures, reflection, LINQ and WPF