DePaul CDM

SE 430 Object Oriented Modeling
Basic Information

Time:
Thursday, 5:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Location:
Loop, Lewis 1516
Instructor:
Dennis Mumaugh
Office Hours:
Loop, CDM 428, Thursday 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Email:
dmumaugh@cdm.depaul.edu
Phone:
630-983-1221 except just before class

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Course Notes, Handouts & Examples

Here you will find my notes in Word and/or PowerPoint format. Lecture notes are in PowerPoint format. You can print them in many formats including one with a slide and notes and one with 6 slides per page. Notes average about 70-85 pages. Students should also print out the  assignment sheets and any other information listed here on their end. [Material is usually available by 3 pm of the day of the lecture] Also bring your text and/or any extensive material to be discussed.

DISCLAIMER: I stress that these are my personal notes and as such are not meant to reflect exactly what was covered in class nor do I claim that they contain no errors. These notes are provided for convenience only.

Lecture 1: September 8 » Introduction and Overview: Class Logistics and Administrivia;  Overview:  Overview of OO (Inheritance, polymorphism, etc.); Overview of  Software Development Methodology and Software Development Life Cycle; UML: O-O A & D
Lecture 2: September 15 »  Defining the Problem: Communicating Design: Problem Statement; Defining Requirements; Requirements Analysis;  Business Rules; Activity Diagrams; 
Lecture 3: September 22 » Use cases: High level use cases; Use Case Diagrams, Ranking Use Cases. Detailed use cases. System Sequence Diagrams.
Lecture 4: September 29 » Static Structure: Requirements Traceability; Building a Beginning Conceptual Model: System Sequence Diagrams; Class Diagram; CRC Cards;  Domain model basic principles; Domain model associations; Domain model attributes; System Glossary.
Lecture 5: October 6 » Transition to Design:  Software Architecture, Architectural Planning; Tools and Techniques for Transition to Design: Design scenarios; The Human Computer Interface: Tiered Architecture; Robustness Analysis; Function-Class Decomposition
Midterm Examination (October 8 - October 12)  using Desire2Learn (https://d2l.depaul.edu/) See important information about Taking Quizzes on-line.
Lecture 6: October 13 » Design by Contract: Operation Contracts: Assigning Responsibilities, System [Operation] Contracts and Dependencies; System Behavior Modeling: Object behavior: Object interaction diagram -- Communication (Collaboration) Diagrams and Message Sequence Diagrams; Object visibility; Object state charts -- State Diagrams, State Space and Behavior;
Lecture 7: October 20 » Start of Design: Frameworks and Packages; Patterns: Overview of patterns; Architectural patterns; Coupling and Cohesion; GRASP patterns; Responsibility-Based Modeling and Responsibility-Driven Design; Design Scenarios
Lecture 8: October 27 » System Organization and Architecture: Real Use Cases; Use case realizations and Design Scenarios;  Case study; More on Design
Lecture 9: November 3 » Putting it all together: Design model: Design class diagrams, package and deployment diagrams; Architecture patterns
Lecture 10: November 10 » Overview of Systems Development Life Cycle Methodologies: Sequential Methodologies, Evolutionary Methodologies; Agile Methodologies; Wrap-up: Best practices; Review
Final Exam: (November 12-18) Final Examination will be using Desire2Learn (https://courses.depaul.edu/).  See important information about Taking Quizzes on-line
NOTE: The lecture documents are in PowerPoint and the assignments in Word. You can get free viewers for these from the MicroSoft web site.

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