Mso Material

Reading material

Books

Design Patterns Explained Alan Shallowoy and James R. Trott. Addison Wesley

This is the main book used in the course. You should be able to find a copy online through Google Scholar.

Applying UML and patterns Craig Larman. Pearson Custom Publishing

This book has a lot of information about object oriented analysis, writing use cases, requirements engineering, and the Unified Process. We will (very roughly) cover the first sixteen chapters in the first weeks.

Refactoring by Martin Fowler

I mentioned this book in the lecture on Refactoring. I think it's a good book to read for anyone who wants to improve their programming skills.

Other reading material

• UML
  • Introduction to UML
  • Class diagrams.
  • Sequence diagrams
• Unified Process
  • Rational Unified Process overview
  • RUP whitepaper
• Use cases
  • Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn.
  • Advice from 'Writing Effective Use Cases'
  • Some frequently asked questions about UML Use Case Diagrams
  • More examples of UML Use Case Diagrams
• Object oriented design
  • Software architecture: object-oriented vs functional. This paper argues why a good object-oriented design is better than a functional one.
  • Commonality-variability analysis
• (Unit) testing
  • Unit testing in Visual Studio This is MSDN article explains how to write unit tests for C# code in Visual Studio.
  • Wikipedia on software testing The wikipedia entry on software testing gives a good overview of the area.
• Working as a software developer - an interesting blog post
• Exploring the Observer Design Pattern - an overview of how to implement Observers in C#, also discusses events and delegates.
• Use your singletons wisely - a good article that is critical of the Singleton pattern.
• Object-oriented programming: Some history, and challenges for the next fifty years - a nice overview article discussing the past, present, and future of object oriented programming.

Old Exams

You can find previous exams and possible answers below. Note that the course material has changed this year!

• Exam + (possible) answers Mar 14, 2012
• Exam + (possible) answers Feb 1, 2012
• Midterm exam + (possible) answers Dec 16, 2011