COSC 3P91 Course Outline

Instructor: Michael Winter, Office J323, Office Hours: Mon 10:00am - noon, Wed 02:00pm - 04:00pm, 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.

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

Week	Date	Book/Chapt.	Topics
1	Jan 08/10	[2]/4,5,6.7,8	Introduction, Review of OO concepts, Basic UML (no lab this week)
2	Jan 15/17	[2]/4,5,6.7,8	Review of OO concepts, Basic UML Utility classes
3	Jan 22/24	[2]/4,5,6.7,8	Collection classes, IO (Lab test 1)
4	Jan 29/31	[2]/7,8	Design patterns I
5	Feb 05/07	[2]/7,8	Design patterns II
6	Feb 12/14	[1]/1,[2]/7,8,11	XML, Threads (Lab test 2)
7*	Feb 26/28	[1]/1,[2]/7,8,11	Multitasking, Concurrency design patterns
8	Mar 05/07	[1]/2,[2]/8	GUI (AWT, Swing)
9	Mar 12/14	[1]/2,[2]/8	2D graphics, Animation (Lab test 3)
10	Mar 19/21	[1]/3,4,6	Sound effects & music
11	Mar 26/28	[1]/3,4,6	Network programming
12	Apr 02/04	n/a	Review (no lab this week)

^* Feb 17-21 is Reading Week.

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

[3] Source code for the "Developing Games in Java" book