Object-Oriented Software Design
2008 Winter Term COMP 304B (CRN 746)

The Course

• Course outline
• Schedule (lectures, tutorials, assignments, holidays, ...)
• Course Material (lecture slides, references)
• Assignments
• Frequently Asked Questions
• UML Resources
• Midterm Exam (in-class, Trottier 0060): Friday 22 February 2008.
  The midterm covers all the material covered in class upto and including Monday 18 February 2008.
  See the lectures section for the corresponding chapters in the Page-Jones book as well as other material used in class. You can find examples of midterms given during previous years on the outline page.
• Final Exam: Monday 14 April, 14:00 -- 17:00.
  Location: AA - LZ in ENGTR 2100, MA - ZZ in ENGTR 2110.
  See the full exam schedule for latest updates.
  The final covers all the material covered in class starting from and including Friday 15 February 2008 (Statecharts).
  See the lectures section for the corresponding chapters in the Page-Jones and GoF books as well as other material used in class. You can find examples of finals given during previous years on the outline page.

Announcements

I will have extra office hours on Monday 14 April 9:30 - 12:30 !

Wednesday 2 April 2008: NO CLASS on Friday 4 April, 2008.

Wednesday 20 February 2008: changed assignment 3 chatprotocol.py file. There was a typo in the code. This shouldn't affect you unless you were trying to generate a new output file!

Tuesday 19 February 2008: extended due date of assignment 3 to Thursday.

Tuesday 19 February 2008: added some clarification about Regular Expressions to the third assignment.

Friday 15 February 2008: Fixed assignment 3 wording, you only have to make 2 sequence diagrams. Also, fixed the output file to reflect the proper output. Please make sure you have the right version!!!

Tuesday 15 January 2008: Python tutorial, 17:30 - 19:00, McConnell 320. The slides are available in the Course Material section.

Monday 14 January 2008:
   added information about Python IDEs to Frequently Asked Questions;
   posted the first assignment (on unit testing with pyUnit);
   added tentative due dates for assignments to Schedule.

Wednesday 9 January 2008: tentative lecture schedule now under lectures.

Tuesday 8 January 2008 : course website updated with 2008 content. Previous incarnations of the course can be found on HV's teaching page.

Acknowledgments

This course would not be what it is today without the contributions of Thomas Feng (DCharts), Marc Provost (DSheet), Alexandre Denault (course instructor Winter 2007), and (former) TAs Jean-Sébastien Bolduc, Hesheng Chen, Sadaf Mustafiz, Ximeng Sun, Reehan Shaikh.

Partial support by the Quebec Ministry for Education for the development of systems-oriented course material is gratefully acknowledged. This support was given in the framework of the Advancing Systems-oriented Information Technology project.

Hans Vangheluwe, Winter Term 2008.