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CISC 3120 Design and Implementation of Software Applications I

Spring 2018

by Professor Hui Chen, CUNY Brooklyn College

Section MW8

Class Meeting: 08:00 - 09:15am, Monday and Wednesday
Classroom: Room 130 Ingersoll Hall Extension (IA-130)

Section MW2

Class Meeting: 02:15 - 03:30pm, Monday and Wednesday
Classroom: Room 130 Ingersoll Hall Extension (IA-130)

Course Schedule

Topics: Discuss the policy of the class; provide an overview of the class; form student teams; introduce toolkit for the class including setting up Git, Github, JDK, Eclipse, and Eclipse project setup.

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C01 Overview of the Class and Tools of the Trade
Assignment
Individual: Practice W01-1_01-29: set up a Github repository and make a submission. Due at Github before the class, Wednesday, January 31.
Team: Project 0: set up Github repository and make submissions. Due at Github before the class, Wednesday, January 31.
Reading
Jess Bidgood and Jeremy B. Merrillmay, As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating, The New York Times, MAY 29, 2017.
Resources
Stack Overflow 2017 Developer Survey Results Video: Git Basics from GitHub Training & Guides by GitHub Screencast: Github Classroom: Simple Workflow for Individual Assignment Screencast: Github Classroom: Simple Workflow for Team Assignment

Topics: Introduce the concept of the Java technology; review a few concepts (class, object, and package) in Objected-Oriented Programming in the context of the Java programing language; introduce a brief history of the Java programming language; write and compile a simple Java program; review the concept of class and object, discuss Java class and object; command-line arguments; text-based application interface.

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C02 Introduction to the Java Technology and Object-Oriented Programming Lecture Note: C02: Sample Programs
Assignment
Team: In-Class: Practice W01-2_01-31_0: What did we learn from BeerSong.java?
Individual: Practice W01-2_01-31: Oops! Do I have a bug? Due at Github before the class, Monday, February 5.
Individual: CodeLab: 20515. Due at CodeLab before the class, Monday, February 5.
Reading
Chapters 1 and 2 of the textbook
The Java Tutorial: What Is an Object? The Java Tutorial: What Is a Class? The Java Tutorial: What Is a Package?
Resources
JDK Installation Guide in Pages 1- 4 of Lawrence Goetz, Eclipse Beginner's Guide, the Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College, June 2017 Java Language and Virtual Machine Specifications

Topics: Review briefly some flow control concepts and OOP concepts; discuss Java primitive data types and reference types; review the main method and the command line arguments; provide an introduction to Java garbage collector.

Remark: Additional discussion on flow control is in C05

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C03 Objects, References, and Primitives Lecture Note: C03: Sample Programs
Assignment
Individual: CodeLab: 20528, 20543, 20510, 20511, 20570, 20571, 20531, 20991, 20593, 20615, 20993, 60124, 20516, 20589, 20578, 20627. Due at CodeLab before the class, Monday, February 12.
Reading
Chapter 3 of the textbook
The Java Tutorial: Variables The Java Tutorial: Assignment, Arithmetic, and Unary Operators
Resources
Java Language Specification: Primitive Types and Values Java Language Specification: Reference Types and Values: Objects

Topics: Discuss Java methods and arguments, and reference variables as method arguments; find answers online to problems; and introduce Eclipse and Maven.

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C04 Methods and Arguments Lecture Note: C04 Sample Programs
Assignment
Individual: Practice W02-2_02-07: Pass-by-Value. Due at Github before the class, Wednesday, February 14.
Individual: CodeLab: 20651, 20653, 20661, 21134, 20579, 20580, 20581, 20583 Due at CodeLab before the class, Wednesday, February 14.
Reading
Chapter 4 of the textbook
The Java Tutorial: Defining Methods
Resources
Lawrence Goetz, Eclipse Beginner's Guide, the Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College, June 2017 Screencast: Eclipse: Install Maven Integration for Eclipse Screencast: Eclipse: Import Existing Maven Project to Eclipse Screencast: Eclipse: Create Java Project in Eclipse with Maven Java Language Specification: Method Declarations
The college is closed to observe Lincoln's Birthday according to the College's Term Schedule.

Topics: Discuss flow controls, i.e., selection and iteration in Java

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C05 Flow Control Lecture Note: C05 Sample Programs
Assignment
Individual: Practice W03-1_02-14: Control Execution Flow. Due at Github before the class, Tuesday, February 20.
Individual: CodeLab: 20930, 20926, 20676, 20680, 20684, 21021, 60129, 60130. Due at CodeLab for the class, Tuesday, February 20.
Reading
Reading: Chapter 5 of the textbook
The Java Tutorial: The for Statement
The College is closed to observe President's Day (Washington's Birthday) according to the College's Term Schedule.

Conversion day: classes to follow a Monday schedule, which means, we have a class today, a Tuesday.

Topics: Introduce the Java library; use Java API documentation; use 3rd party Java libraries; discuss arrays and lists in the context of data structures; discuss lists in the context of Java Collections API.

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C06 Java API and Libraries Lecture Note: C06 Sample Programs
Assignment
Individual: Practice W04-1_02-20: Array, ArrayList, and more? Due at Github before the class, Tuesday, February 26.
Individual: CodeLab: 20606, 20969, 20968, 20713, 20717, 20659, 21112 Due at CodeLab before the class, Tuesday, February 26.
Individual: Take-Home Test 1 and Review #1
Reading
Chapter 6 of the textbook.
The Java Tutorial: Arrays The Java Tutorial: List Implementations
Resources
Java Language Specification: Arrays Java Virtual Machine Specification: Array Type Descriptor

Topics: Introduce concept of software validation and verification; discuss testing and JUnit, a unit test framework for Java; discuss examples of JUnit tests; and discuss roadmap of class projects and the project 1 assignment.

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C07 Class Projects, and Testing and Java Unit Test Framework Lecture Note: C07 Sample Code
Assignment
Team: Project 1: Develop a usable (text-based) command-line Java application. Due at Github before the class, Monday, March 5.
Individual: Practice W04-2_02-21: Improving quality via testing. Due at Github before the class, Tuesday, February 26.
Reading
Unit Testing with JUnit - Tutorial
Resources
Screencast: Eclipse and JUnit: Working with JUnit Resolving a merge conflict using the command line by GitHub

Topics: Review concept of inheritance and polymorphism; discuss Java inheritance and polymorphism

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C08 Inheritance and Polymorphism Lecture Note: C08 Sample Programs
Assignment
Individual: Practice W05-1_02-26: All kinds of shapes Due before the class on Wednesday, February 28.
Individual: CodeLab: 20947, 21122, 21129, 20774, 20752, 21132, 21095, 21117 Due before the class on Monday, March 5.
Reading
Chapter 7 of the textbook
The Java Tutorial: What is Inheritance? The Java Tutorial: Subclasses The Java Tutorial: Nested Class The Java Tutorial: Inner Class Example

Topics: Review concept of abstract classes; discuss Java interfaces and abstract classes.

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C09 Interfaces and Abstract Class Lecture Note: C09 Sample Programs
Assignment
Individual: Practice W05-2_02-28: Abstract Classes and Interfaces. Due before the class Wednesday, March 7.
Individual: CodeLab: 21100, 21101, 21162, 21166, 20753. Due before the class Wednesday, March 7.
Reading
Chapter 8 of the textbook
Resources
The Java Tutorial: Interfaces and Inheritance The Java Tutorial: Anonymous Class The Java Tutorial: Lambda Expression

Topics: Discuss program data, memory management in JVM, Java constructors and Java Garbage Collector

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C10 Constructors and Garbage Collection Lecture Note: C10 Sample Programs
Assignment
Individual: CodeLab: 20633, 20635, 20636, 20760, 21125, 21126, 20751, 21116. Due before the class Monday, March 12.
Reading
Chapter 9 of the textbook
Resources
The Java Tutorial: Classes and Objects

Topics: Discuss user interfaces; contrast text-based user interface and graphical user inerface; discuss GUI and GUI applications; discuss event-driven programming; provide a first exposure to Java FX for desktop applications.

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C11 Graphical User Interface and JavaFX Overview Lecture Note: C11 Sample Programs
Assignment
Team: Project 2: Inheritance and Polymorphism. Due at Github before the class, Wednesday, March 21.
Individual: Practice W06-2_03-07: GUI and Event Registration. Due before the class Wednesday, March 14
Individual: CodeLab: 60237, 60238, 60239, 60232. Due before the class Wednesday, March 14
Individual: Take-Home Test 2 and Review #2
Reading
the javafx tutorial: javafx overview by oracle Brad A. Myers. 1998. A brief history of human-computer interaction technology. interactions 5, 2 (March 1998), 44-54. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/274430.274436
Resources
Alan F. Blackwell. 2006. The reification of metaphor as a design tool. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 13, 4 (December 2006), 490-530. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1188816.1188820

Topics: Conduct project activities in team; and provide a brief recap for the midterm exam

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C13 Project Activities and Midterm Review
Assignment
Team: Project Activities
Team: Project 3: GUI Desktop application. Due at Github before the class, Wednesday, April 18.
Individual: Take-Home Test 3 and Review #3

Topics: Midterm Examination

Topics: The College canceled the class due to the inclement weather.

Topics: Introduce observer pattern; discuss concurrency in JavaFX; introduce Java threads and JavaFX tasks; discuss application of observer pattern in JavaFX in the context of JavaFX concurrency and tasks; and discuss JavaFX properties and bindings in the context of the observer pattern.

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C15 Dependencies, Observables, Properties, and JavaFX Concurrency and Tasks Lecture Note: C15 Sample Programs
Assignment
Individual: Practice W09-1_03-26: Dealing with Dependencies and Concurrencies. Due by midnight Friday, March 30.
Reading
Jan Hannemann and Gregor Kiczales. 2002. Design pattern implementation in Java and aspectJ. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '02). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 161-173. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/582419.582436 JavaFX: Properties and Binding Tutorial JavaFX: Concurrency in JavaFX
Resources
The JavaFX Observable Interface

Topics: Styling JavaFX with CSS; FXML; Model-View-Controller architecture style; discuss exception and error handling in Java.

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C16a MVC, FXML and JavaFX CSS Styling Lecture Note: C16b Exception Handling Lecture Note: C16a Sample Programs (MVC, FXML, and CSS) Lecture Note: C16b Sample Programs (Exception Handling)
Assignment
Individual: Practice W09-2_03-28: CSS, FXML, and MVC. Due by midnight Friday, March 30.
Individual: CodeLab 03/28: 60208, 60209, 60216, 60217, 60214, 20763, 20790, 21176, 21169, 21189, 21187, 21183, 21175, 21186. Due by midnight Friday, March 30.
Reading
JavaFX: Mastering FXML Skinning JavaFX Applications with CSS
Chapter 11 (exception and error handling) of the textbook
Resources
Adam Bien, Structuring Complex JavaFX 8 Applications for Productivity, October 2014 Burbeck, Steve. "Application Programming in Smalltalk-80: How to use Model-View-Controller (MVC)."University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Smalltalk Archive. 1992. Microsoft Developer Network: Model-View-Controller Concepts in Objective-C Programming: Model-View-Controller
March 30 - April 8, Friday-Sunday, Spring Recess
March 30 - April 8, Friday-Sunday, Spring Recess

Topics: File system trees, traversal of file system trees, path, file, I/O streams (byte stream, character stream, data stream, object stream), File I/O with streams, formatted and unformatted I/O, character encoding and character set, locatel and formatted I/O, buffered and unbuffed I/O, sequential and random access.

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C17 I/O Streams and File I/O Lecture Note: C17 Sample Programs
Assignment
Individual: Practice W11-1_04-09: File I/O. Due at Github before the class, Wednesday, April 18.
Individual: CodeLab 04/09: 20764, 20771, 21193, 21197, 21198, 21206, 21209, 21222, 21201, 21204, 21218. Due at CodeLab before the class, Wednesday, April 18.
Reading
Chapter 14 (File I/O) of the textbook
The Java Tutorials: I/O Streams The Java Tutorials: File I/O
Resources
Java I/O, NIO, and NIO.2
Classes to follow a Friday schedule

Topics Introduce networking fundamentals including OSI model and TCP/IP model, characteristics of communicational channels, networking application architecture, Berkeley sockets with TCP, and object serialization.

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C18 Networking Fundamentals and Reliable Sockets Lecture Note: C18 Sample Programs
Assignment
Individual: Practice W12-1_04-16: Reliable streams with sockets. Due at Github before the class, Wednesday, May 2.
Reading
Chapter 15 (networking section) of the textbook
Resources
The Java Tutorials: Networking Basics The Java Tutorials: Programmatic Access to Network Parameters The Java Tutorials: All About Sockets

Topics: Discuss concepts of unicast, broadcast, and multicast; discuss user datagram and datagram sockets; discuss datagram sockets for unicast, broadcast, and multicast.

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C19 Datagram Sockets and Multicasting Lecture Note: C19 Sample Programs
Assignment
Individual: Practice W12-2_04-18: Network I/O and Multicast. Due at Github before the class, Wednesday, May 2.
Reading
chapter 14 (serialization) of the textbook
Chapter 15 (networking section) of the textbook
Resources
The Java Tutorials: All About Datagrams

Topics Introduce to asynchronous I/O and concurrency; discuss Java Threads and asynchronuous I/O and their application in networking and GUI applications.

Lecture Note: C20 Threads and I/O Lecture Note: C20 Sample Programs: Threads Lecture Note: C20 Sample Programs: Asynchronous I/O
Assignment
Individual: Practice W13-1_04-23: Asynchronous I/O, Threading, and Networking Due at Github before the class, Monday, May 7.
Team: Project 4: Network and Concurrency. Due at Github before the class, Monday, May 7.
Reading
Chapter 15 (multithreading) of the textbook
Resources
IBM developerWorks: The asynchronous channel APIs The Java Tutorials: Concurrency

Topics: Introduce and review a few design patterns including static factory method, factory pattern, builder pattern, and observer pattern; discuss design patterns in Java API

Lecture Notes
Lecture Note: C21 Some Design Patterns and Java API
Assignment
Individual: Practice W13-2_04-25: Design Patterns. Due at Github before the class, Monday, May 7.
Individual: Take-Home Test 4 and Review #4
Resources
Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition

Topics: Introduce Web application and architecture; review client/server architecture; discuss multi-tier application architecture; discuss and review XML, HTML, and CSS; and introduce JavaScript and libraries and framework.

Lecture Note: C22 Introduction to Web Applications Lecture Note: C22 Sample Programs
Resources
Adding HTML Content to JavaFX Applications

Topics: Discuss URI, URN, and URL; discuss HTTP; experiment with URL and HTTP; programming with simple Web services.

Lecture Note: C23 Introduction to HTTP Lecture Note: C23 Sample Programs
Assignment
Individual: Practice W14-2_05-02: URL and Simple Web Service. Due at Github before the class, Wednesday, May 9.

Topics: Discuss passing data and parsing returns for the Web; Introduce the Spring Framework; discuss the evoluation of Web applications and development; discuss Spring MVC.

Lecture Note: C24a Passing Arguments and Parsing Returns Lecture Note: C24b Implementing Simple Web API with Spring RESTful Controller Lecture Note: C24 Sample Programs
Assignment
Individual: Practice W15-1_05-07: Passing Data and Parsing Returns. Due at Github before the class, Monday, May 14.

Topics: Discuss Spring Web Controller; discuss simple data store;

Lecture Note: C25 Developing Web Services with the Spring Framework Lecture Note: C25 Sample Programs
Assignment
Team: Project 5: Web Application
Individual: Practice W15-2_05-09: Implementing Simple Web Service. Due at Github before the class, Monday, May 14.

Topics: Final review; Q&a.

Q&A

Section MW8: 8 - 10AM, Wednesday, May 23, IA 130
Section MW2: 1 - 3PM, Thursday, May 17, IA 130
The College's Schedule for Final Examination