Watch this space as the syllabus for this course grows. I know where we will begin, but have not yet decided in detail how the course will evolve in order best to cover the material.

• We will begin by studying the iterations in the development of the sketchpad application in Chapter 9 of Jia, in order to learn
  • some UML
  • how to discuss application structure using design patterns
  • how to refactor code when modifying application design
  • how graphical user interfaces work

• GUI design, refactoring. Build a graphical front end for the cs310 generic games project.

• C++
  • C++ vs Java
  • STL (the Standard Template Library)
  • C# (perhaps)

• Application design
  • Use cases
  • CRC cards

• Frameworks
  • Testing with JUnit
  • ...

• Concurrent programming (threads)

• Final project (discrete event simulation?)