CS 6140 LANGUAGE DESIGN: SYLLABUS (SUMMER 2003)

Instructor: Ted Billard  Email     : ted.billard@csueastbay.edu
Phone     : 885-3437     Home Page : http://www.mcs.csueastbay.edu/~billard
Class Time: TR 8-9:50am  Office Hrs: TR Noon-1pm (Sc N216)

Summary:
  The course compares and contrasts the object-oriented languages C++, Java,
  Smalltalk, and Perl 5.0. The Gang of Four design patterns are used to
  illustrate the syntax, features, and capabilities of the four languages.
  Lectures include discussion of selected design patterns, in UML, followed by
  solutions in the languages. References on-line or textbooks already provide
  coding solutions in the four languages, however, the course will only consider
  the patterns in their simplest structural form, independent of any applica-
  tion. Thus, the focus is on the true object-oriented features of the languages 
  and how the design of each language supports re-usable software. 

Prerequisites: 
  Students are expected to know object-oriented programming in at least one 
  language. Since this is a graduate language course, students are expected to 
  be able to learn new languages and sufficient time will be devoted to help 
  students in this process.

Texts:
  Instructor's Lecture Notes, available at the bookstore and: 
    http://www.mcs.csueastbay.edu.edu/~billard/6140.html

Other Texts:
  Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Gamma, Helm,
    Johnson, Vlissides (Addison-Wesley: 0-201-633361-2).
  Patterns in Java, Vol 1, Grand (Wiley: 0-471-25839-3).
  The Design Patterns SmallTalk Companion, Alpert, Brown, Woolf 
    (Addison-Wesley: 0-201-18462-1)

Lectures: Presentation of the following patterns in four languages:
  Adapter, Bridge, Cache, Facade, Factory, Interpreter, Iterator, Mememto, 
  Object Pool, Observer, Prototype, Proxy, Singleton, Template, Visitor.

Exercise I: Given a solution in one language, code the following design
  patterns in ONE other language: Mediator, Decorator, State, Strategy.
  Due: 7/08

Exercise II: Finish coding the following design patterns in the other TWO 
  languages: Mediator, Decorator, State, Strategy.

Exercise III: Given UML and example code in all four languages, code
  the following design patterns in all FOUR languages, but be sure the 
  solutions are application-independent and identical throughout, as best 
  as the languages support object-oriented programming:
  Abstract Factory, Builder, Command, Chain, Composite, Flyweight.

Mid-Term, Final Exam (9/4):
  Given a design pattern, program solutions in four languages.
  Given a programming solution in one language, give solutions in the other 
    three.

Collaboration/Copying: Unless otherwise stated, do your own work in this class.
Violations will be prosecuted to the full extent of the University rules.