CSCB07 Software Design -- Summer 2004

University of Toronto at Scarborough - Summer 2004
Department of Computer Science

CSCB07 Software Design

(Summer 2004)

About the Course

This course is an introduction to software design and development concepts, methods, and tools. Topics include object-oriented design and programming, unit testing, version control, build management, the XML Document Object Model (DOM), reflection, the role of scripting in the software development process, regular expressions, and persistence.

Orientation Handout
There are no required textbooks for the course. Here is a list of recommended and useful books Reading list
The csc207 web page at St. George.
Newsgroup: Please specify "(UTSC)" in the subject line of your messages because this newsgroup is shared with the St. George course.

Announcements

Aug 23rd: Final marks are available. I will submit the final grades to the department wednesday morning.
Aug 22nd: E05 marks are available. Please check your marks, and let me know if there are any mistakes/problems.
Aug 14th: E04 marks are available. Please check your marks, and let me know if there are any mistakes/problems.
Aug 8th: Final Exam Office hours: Monday August 16th, 10am-1 pm; Tuesday August 17th, 10:30am-1:30pm.
Aug 8th: The list of topics that will be covered in the final exam.
Aug 3th: The faq is update with information about RPCException and RPCFormatException
July 25th:the faq page of e05 has been updated.
Old Announcements

Lecture Notes

Date	Topics	Exercises and Tests
11/05/2004 - Week01	Introduction Maps	Exercise 1 out (5%)
18/05/2004 - Week02	Version Control Systematic Testing	Exercise 1 due
25/05/2004 - Week03	Unit Testing Introducing Python	Exercise 2 out (7%)
01/06/2004 - Week04	Python Sequences Python Dictionaries, Functions, and Modules	Exercise 2 due
08/06/2004 - Week05	Object Oriented Python Regular Expressions	Exercise 3 out (8%)
15/06/2004 - Week06	Python Tools Object Models	Exercise 3 due
22/06/2004 - Week07	Make Parsing Text Files	Exercise 4 out (10 %)
29/06/2004	Reading Week
06/07/2004 - Week08	Graphs Making Make	Midterm Exam (15%) 4-5pm. in room H214
13/07/2004 - Week09	Systematic Debugging Filters	Exercise 4 due
20/07/2004 - Week10	The Document Object Model pdf slides on XML Reflection pdf slides on Reflection An example of loading classes in Python.	Exercise 5 out (15%)
27/07/2004 - Week11	Configuration Design Patterns
03/07/2004 - Week12	Refactoring The Development Cycle	Exercise 5 due

Exercises

Tutorials

Exams

Midterm Exam (15%): 06/07/2004 4-5pm. in room H214 midterm exam with solutions: pdf

Final Exam (40%)

Old Final Exams:

Final Exam - Summer 2004
Final exam - Fall 2003 with solutions: ps, pdf
(Caveat: The provided solutions are not the only solutions, and they may still have some errors in them.)
Final exam - Winger 2004 with some solutions: ps, pdf
(Caveat: The provided solutions are not the only solutions, and they may still have some errors in them.)

Marks

Useful Material

Frequently Asked Questions
Websites for the previous versions of the course: Winter 2004, Fall 2004
Useful Links
Using Linux

Examples

Contact Info

Instructor:

Shiva Nejati
email: shiva (at) utsc(dot)utoronto(dot)ca
office hours: Tuesdays 12-1p.m. B460

webpage: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~shiva/cscb07/index.html

TA:

Mark Senecal

email: senecal (at) utsc(dot)utoronto(dot)ca