COSC 3P91 Course Outline

	COSC 3P91 Course Outline

Instructor: Michael Winter, email: mwinter@brocku.ca

Calendar description

Advanced object-oriented programming techniques such as graphical user interfaces, animation, sound, music, networking, parallelism, client-server and XML using game design as an example. Topics in object-oriented program design including UML and design patterns. Introduction to advanced Java APIs such as awt, swing, io, nio, sound, net and xml.

Prerequisites: two COSC credits or permission of the instructor.

Course Description

This course is about advanced object-oriented programming (OOP) including OO concepts, OO modelling, design patterns and the advanced Java APIs.

Course Outline

Day Book/Chapt. Topics

1 [2]/4,5,6.7,8 Introduction, review of OO concepts, basic UML, Utility classes, collection classes

2 [2]/7,8 I/O, Design patterns

3 [1]/1,[2]/7,8,11 XML, Threads, multitasking, Concurrency design patterns

4 [1]/2,[2]/8 GUI (AWT, Swing), 2D graphics, animation

5 [1]/3,4,6 Sound effects & music, Network programming

Texts

[1] (recommended) Developing Games in Java, D. Brackeen, New Riders (2003), ISBN 1-5927-3005-1

[2] (recommended) Object-Oriented Software Development Using Java, second edition, Xiaoping Jia, Pearson(2002), ISBN 0-201-73733-7

Day	Book/Chapt.	Topics
1	[2]/4,5,6.7,8	Introduction, review of OO concepts, basic UML, Utility classes, collection classes
2	[2]/7,8	I/O, Design patterns
3	[1]/1,[2]/7,8,11	XML, Threads, multitasking, Concurrency design patterns
4	[1]/2,[2]/8	GUI (AWT, Swing), 2D graphics, animation
5	[1]/3,4,6	Sound effects & music, Network programming