4-3-3

The course is intended to be a sequel to introductory programming with emphasis placed on the architecture of software. It will go in depth into object-oriented techniques, reusability, data abstraction, class design, and implementation, design and structure of class libraries. Topics to be covered include: polymorphism, encapsulation, overloading, inheritance and delegation, types of inheritance (Inheritance for Extension, Specialization and Specification), composition, aggregation and design of collections. Static and dynamic types, downcasting, exception handling. The second half of the course will be devoted to software design patterns, with particular emphasis on the observer, iterator, visitor and selected creational patterns. Coursework will involve significant programming projects. The teaching language will be Java.

Prerequisite: CSC 111