Readings for Computer Science 420 - Spring 2009

last updated April 5, 2009

For Wednesday, January 14, 2009
• Software Engineering, Not Computer Science by Steve McConnell
• prelude (not preface) of Balancing Agility and Discipline by Barry W. Boehm and Richard Turner
• preface of The Pragmatic Programmers by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
For Wednesday, January 21, 2009
• skim through Parnas's Faking It paper by David Parnas and Paul Clements
  D. L. Parnas and P. C. Clements. A rational design process: How and why to fake it. IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng., SE-12(2):251–257, Feb. 1986.
For Wednesday, February 4, 2009
• first two pages of Parnas's Criteria for Decomposing Systems paper
For Wednesday, February 11, 2009
• Michael Mamehoff's Design Patterns: Rapid Learning and Pattern Metaphors
For Friday, February 13, 2009
• slide handouts from chapter 5 of Cay Horstmann's OO Design & Patterns second edition
• portions of Douglas Schmidt's OO Pattern Examples as handed out in class; pp. 24-39, 68-71, 76-78
• High and Low Context
• at least first two pages of David Geary's Make Your Apps Fly
For Monday, February 16, 2009
• requirements slides adapted from chapter 4 of Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Practical Software Development using UML and Java, 2nd edition. Timothy C. Lethbridge and Robert Laganiere.
For Wednesday, February 18, 2009
• specifications slides adapted from chapter 5 of Fundamentals of Software Engineering, 2nd Edition, Ghezzi, Jazayeri, and Mandrioli.
For Wednesday, April 8, 2009
• Yakov Fain's discussion of Abstract Classes vs. Interfaces

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