CS 3340 Introduction to Object Oriented Programming and Design (4) 2005

Catalog Description

Programming in an object-oriented language, using object-oriented techniques and concepts. Classes, information hiding, inheritance, and polymorphism. Memory management. Parameterized classes. Exception handling. Object-oriented design of programs. Prerequisites: CS 3240, and knowledge of C or C++.

Topics include:

• Overview of object-oriented software development, including history and goals, phases of development, principles (abstraction, modularity, hierarchy, etc.)
• Structure and Organization of an Object-Oriented Program. Classes and Objects.
• Organization of data in Objects, classes and methods. Instance variables, class variables, local variables and constants.
• Organization of the name space. Packages.
• Access controls and encapsulation.
• Methods in classes: class methods and instance methods, method overloading.
• Initialization, static initializers, constructors, constructor chaining.
• Memory management, allocation and deallocation of objects. Deallocation alternatives, garbage collection versus explicit deallocation.
• Error handling and exceptions.
• Relationships among objects and classes, "is-a" "has-a" and "uses" relationships. Inheritance, method overriding, and polymorphism. Multiple inheritance versus interfaces. Aggregation.
• Introduction to Object Oriented Design, decomposition of applications into classes and objects.
• Event-driven applications. Programming with GUI Objects.

Texts

• Lyon, Java for Programmers, Pearson
• Horstman & Cornell, Core Java 2, Vol 1, Prentice Hall
• Wang, Java and Object Oriented Progamming, Thompson Learning
• Pender, UML Weekend Crash Course, Wiley