CS 562: Advanced Object-Oriented Software Development with Patterns and Frameworks

Douglas C. Schmidt
Department of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Washington University in St. Louis

Locations

Classroom -- Lopata 103, Monday and Wednesday from 5:30-7:00pm
CS562 Newsgroup and newsgroup archives
Programming assignment submission guidelines
Students
TAs and office hours
- Douglas C. Schmidt <schmidt@cs.wustl.edu>, M/W 8-9pm, Bryan 503
- Kirthika Parameswaran <kirthika@cs.wustl.edu>, Lopata 400, Thursday 7:00 - 9:00 PM and Friday 2:30 - 4:30 PM.
- Vishal Kachroo <vishal@cs.wustl.edu>, Lopata 400, Tuesday 3:30 - 5:30 PM and Wednesday : 7:00 - 9:00 PM
- Pradeep Gore <pradeep@cs.wustl.edu>
- Yamuna Krishnamurthy <yamuna@cs.wustl.edu>
Final exam time: Wednesday, May 5th, 6-8pm.

Philosophy

Developing high quality communication software is hard; developing high quality reusable communication software is even harder. The principles, methods, and skills required to develop reusable software cannot be learned by generalities. Instead, developers must learn through experience how reusable software components and frameworks can be designed, implemented, optimized, validated, maintained, and enhanced by applying good development practices and patterns.

Prerequisites

CS 242 (C++ and Design Patterns)
CS 422 (Operating Systems)
Basic proficiency in C++ and UNIX
Knowledge of email, WWW, and USENET newsgroups

Handouts

The following are electronic versions of my course handouts. Most of these handouts are stored in postscript 4-up on a page. Eric S Rosenthal has donated a perl script that converts the 4-up handouts to 1-up handouts. If you have trouble obtaining or printing these files see my troubleshooting tips.

Course Overview Material
The CS562 syllabus is available as HTML in the following sections:
Design Patterns and Frameworks
- Patterns and Frameworks for Concurrent Network Programming with ACE and C++
- Introduction to Design Patterns
Design Principles and Concepts
- Overview of Software Design Principles and Concepts
Distributed Object Computing Middleware with CORBA
C++ Review Material
Programming Assignments
Please see the online help for information on how to setup your development environment on Washington University's computing system.
- Assignment 1 (due Wednesday, January 13th)
- Assignment 2, pt. 1 (due Thursday, January 21st at midnight)
- Assignment 2, pt. 2 (due Thursday, February 4th at midnight)
- Assignment 2, pt. 3 (due Friday, February 19th at midnight)
- Assignment 3 (due Friday, March 12th at midnight)
- Assignment 4 (due Wednesday, March 24th at midnight)
- Assignment 5 (due Monday, April 26th at midnight)

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