CSCI 479 Capstone - Software Design in Java

By Dan Hyde Fall 2002

1 Aug 28 problem-based learning; problem solving Hand out Project HW1 learning Java

methodology; Capstone goals; teams;

team building, team roles; team skills

2 Sep 2 pair programming; project organization; HW2 more Java; pair

planning; review OOD concepts; practice OOD programming; BlueJ; UML

3 Sep 9 XP tenets; documentation tool Javadoc; HW3 developing GUIs;

version control tool CVS; unit testing and JUnit tool pair programming; CVS

4 Sep 16 UML Diagrams; responsibilities and HW4 drawing program;

collaborations in OOD; planning game in XP; OOD; CRC cards; UML

writing requirement specs; writing XP stories

5 Sep 23 customer relations, overview distributed HW4 subset of Proj.; HW5 unit testing; JUnit

systems; client/server; TCP sockets in Java; team presentation

6 Sept 30 unit testing of GUIs; Robot class in Java; Teams start HW6 technical review of

distributed objects; Java RMI interactions with literature for Project

customers

7 Oct 7 software architectures; more XP; role of Learning Java 4 clients and

customer; “Do the simplest thing that works!” servers in Java (optional)

8 Oct 14 acceptance tests; test plans Iteration 1 due; Learning Java 5 distributed

customer review objects; Java RMI

[Fall Break Oct 21-22]

9 Oct 23 marshalling parameters; Java serialization;

sending arbitrary objects across network;

polymorphism; Java archives - .jar files;

10 Oct 28 legal issues – intellectual property; Iteration 2 due;

Java Servlets and connecting to Oracle customer review

database

11 Nov 4 pitfalls using Java threads Release 1 due;

10 min. presentations;

technical report

12 Nov 11 conflict management; communicating

with customer

13 Nov 18 Iteration 4 due;

customer review

14 Nov 25 Capstone – reflections on Bucknell

education; viewpoints and values

[Thanksgiving Wed Nov 27-29]

15 Dec 2 Capstone – primary goal of an

undergraduate education

16 Dec 9 Release 2 due;

20 min. presentations;

Final Project Report