Lecture Set 01
1A - Introduction to CIS 3309
Component-Based Software
Design
1/16/2010 12:00 PM
How to Read These Slides
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These slides are now organized in such a way as to
highlight the most important ones (using blue
colored headings) and indicate which ones may be
considered optional (using red headings)
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The “most important” slides are those that contain
information to be carefully studied and understood
This information relates to key concepts and terms
important to an orderly progression thru the course
The “optional” slides contain information you may want to
read at some point in the course, but it is not material
that is critical to your understanding of the basic concepts
you need to know
Most slides will have blue headings; these should be
read carefully and referred to as needed
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What’s It All About?
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In part, this is a “how to” course
But MOSTLY … it is a course where we try to
answer
WHY?
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If you really want a “how to” course, this is not
going to be it
You will learn the “how to” in lab and on your
own – and sometimes in lectures
1/16/2010 12:01PM
What’s It All About?
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The course is supposed to be FUN
It will also be hard work – the less you recall
from CIS 2168 (Java, part 2) the harder this will
be. O-O Design and programming are HARD
THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRACY! (But I am not an
Ogre – contrary to public opinion)
However
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I like to encourage questions
And I like it better when you answer your
classmates questions
You should not let me get away with anything
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What’s It All About?
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The name of the game is
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reuse
Reuse of EVERYTHING, from
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Design ideas
Code snippets
Procedural components
Class components
HOWEVER … citation is the key
GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
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For example
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Learning?
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I hope you will learn something from me
Ain’t gonna happen if you do not get involved
You have to do the work
If, at the end, you write in my evaluation
“he did not teach us anything, I had to learn
it all on my own” …
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Well – that is OK with me
As long as you learned a lot
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Credits
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The sources of these slides and our lectures
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The textbook – Visual Basic 2012
by Mike Murach and Anne Boehm
Mike Murach and Associates, Inc.
(right click on links and then Open)
www.murach.com
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Programming with Visual Basic 2005, An ObjectOriented Approach
by Michael Ekedahl
Tompson/Course Technologies
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(An old book, but still useful)
Building Applications and Components with Visual
Basic .NET
by Ted Pattison and Joe Hummel
(Microsoft .NET Development Series)
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Credits
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Professors
Henri Wiesel
Lefkovitz
Pascucci
Baram
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(a former professor who has passed away)
Lab Assistants – Joe Jupin and Bill Hall
Phil Bagley – the octogenarian whiz who sadly passed away a few
years ago
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All the students who took this course before you
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The Problem with This Course – Part I
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Learning a new programming language (syntax)
Learning how to use a brand new IDE (the .NET
IDE)
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How to navigate around (all its features)
Framework class library
Other tools
New terminology
Introduction to software design techniques
Introduction to forms/user interface design
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The Problem with This Course – Part II
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For first four weeks – chaos and struggle!!
I won’t abandon you … BUT
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You will be asked to work on 4 Labs (the easy part) and 2 projects
Most of you will not have a clue how to approach the projects –
especially the one you will start on today.
I don’t plan to help you unless YOU FIRST get started and begin
asking questions
If you do not ask questions
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I will explain what you need to do, and in some cases, how to do it –
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BUT ONLY IF YOU ASK
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If you don’t ask, we cannot succeed
If you want a well-structured, step-by-step course,
this is NOT IT!
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The Problem with This Course – Part III
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In addition to asking questions, you will need to
learn to
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Read the book
Google
Talk to other people
Work with your partner
You will learn NOT TO copy (plagiarize)
Citations of the work of others
NO MATTER WHAT YOU LEARN FROM
OTHERS, you need to do YOUR WORK
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Course Number and Title
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I thought you would never ask
Officially
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CIS 3309
Component-Based Software Design
Move toward new curriculum
CIS 3209 and 4309 have been “compressed” into a
new course
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Now has a new number (3309)
Should have a new title
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Classroom Etiquette
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Multi-tasking
Do at your on risk
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Adds to inefficiency and STRESS
Especially when you end up not following
instructions for HW and Labs
If you are not convinced, try this …
http://davecrenshaw.com/tag/multitasking-exercise
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Lab attendance and class attendance count! (x3)
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Class Conduct
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1. Come on time – within 3 minutes of class time
2. If you are later than that you will miss roll call
and not be counted as being present
3. Less reliance on lectures and more on HW,
Labs, Quizzes and your presentations (rather
than mine)
4. One (or two) exams, and a final
5. The first 12 chapters of the Boehm text will be
covered REALLY quickly
6. Go to web site  Labs  Lab Schedule to see
7. You are expected to read the book and notes
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A New Approach – Part I
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I’m boring
You get bored
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So we will start this course with 2 projects
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I used to lecture using these slides
Your buddies fell asleep
They got disengaged
Two week “Tic-Tac-Toe” project
Four week “ATM” project
You will need to get engaged starting today
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A New Approach – Part II
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You will do all the work
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The Lab Assistants and I will help you
Work on projects outside of class and lab
Labs will cover Ch 1-12 mostly in sequence
The projects will require you to do research -throughout Ch 1-12 of the book and maybe
elsewhere
Where?
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A New Approach – Part II
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You need to ask questions – or the learning
process will not work well
The labs each week are pretty self-contained and
illustrate how to do things in a reasonable,
sequential manner
You need to read the book to do the labs
The rest is up to you …
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