Grades (5/February/2003)

Look at the project page. (18/December/2002)

The following are the preliminary works you should be doing nowadays before you start your term project (17/Oct/2002):
- Installing JBuilder and Together programs on your computers.
- Getting JBuilder, Together, Special UML CDs from your assistant.
- Starting examining and writing the JBuilder and Together sample programs.
- Completing "A Practical Guide to Getting Started with Together Control Center 6.0" tutorial which we have stated in class.
- Working through some of the introductory Together Viewlets tutorials which are on the Together CD. There may be some new tutorials on the Internet site.
- Learning "Java Threads and Multithreaded Software Design" topic which is very important in professional Java projects and is the subject of another course. You can get my lecture slides on this topic.
- Learning UML and Rational Unified Process (RUP). You will use RUP in your projects. A project that uses UML in a vacuum without a sound software process, like RUP, and accompanying project plan, will fail.
- Reading chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 from Developing Applications with Java and UML (Java&UML).
- Starting to think and work on your Project Vision using the template given on page 53 of Java&UML.
- Examining the Elevator Simulation Case Study which is given in Java How to Program, Deitel and drawing the important UML diagrams (Use Case, Class and Sequence diagrams) of this simulation using Together.
- Finding other good case studies (OO projects, if possible UML-based) to examine their designs. You can learn to design programs by studying good and bad designs, and coming to understand why they are good and bad. But you REALLY learn to design programs by designing programs and studying the results!
" Good design comes from experience. Experience comes from bad design. "

You can get the passwords of the zip files containing the lecture slides and other materials from the assistant. He is your solution point especially for your practical issues (17/Oct/2002).

Finally an assistant was assigned to this course! He is Engin Tozal (17/Oct/2002).

Read Chapters 1-2 in UOOP (Textbook) before coming to the class (4/Oct/2002).