Spring 2008 Syllabus

MIS 6323: Object Oriented Systems

Instructor: Dr. Jai Asundi, (SOM 3.418, 972-883-4776, asundi AT utdallas DOT edu)

Class hours:4:00 to 6:45 pm, Thursday, SOM 2.107

Office Hours: 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm on Wednesday or by appointment

TA: Rajiv Jayant, rajiv(at)utdallas(dot)edu, SOM 3.420, 972-883-4411, Time: By appointment

Course Text: JAVA: An Introduction to Problem Solving & Programming, Walter Savitch,
Prentice Hall, 4th Ed., 2005.

Prerequisite: Knowledge of operating personal computers, text editors and installing programs.

Course Objective:

The objective of the course is to introduce students to the issues of object oriented systems
development and understanding. Topics the students will learn by the end of the semester are:

· Software development lifecycle models

· Object Oriented Programming
· Unified Modeling Language (UML)
· Programming in Java
· Other advanced topics(Patterns, MVC architecture) depending on time constraints

Course Evaluation:

1. Class Assignments (4 * 7 = 28%): There will be four or more homework assignments. The
four best assignments will be chosen to count towards 28% of the final grade.

2. Test 1 (25%): 90 minute test on February 21st, 2008

3. Test 2 (25%): 90 minute test on April 24th, 2008

4. Class Project (22%): Each student is expected to develop an Object Oriented program as part of
a class project. This can be accomplished as part of a group. A group can have a maximum of two
students. There will be project walkthrough sessions at the end of certain classes or according to
class needs.

Make up exams will be allowed ONLY with the prior permission of the instructor.

Grading Policy (expected):

Depends on class performance

Scholastic dishonesty: Scholastic dishonesty will be dealt seriously and according to the
University policy available at http://www.utdallas.edu/student/slife/dishonesty.html
Tentative Class Schedule:

Book Assignment
Week Day(s) Topic
Chapters
Course Introduction
1 1/10 Introduction to Software Development and 1
OO concepts
#1 out
2 1/17 Some UML notation Notes
#2 out
3 1/24 Java: Primitive Types, Strings and I/O 2
#1 due
4 1/31 Java: Flow control 3
Java: Defining Classes, Methods and #2 due
5 2/7 4, 5
Objects #3 out
6 2/14 Java: Arrays 6

7 2/21 Test 1
#3 due
8 2/28 Java: Inheritance 7
#4 out
9 3/6 Java: GUI using Swing 12,13
SPRING BREAK #4 due
3/13
#5 out
10 3/20 Java: Exception Handling 8
#5 due
11 3/27 Java: Stream and File I/O 12 #6 out
12 4/3 Java: Dynamic Data Structures 10
#6 due
13 4/10 Other advanced topics in OO Programming Notes

14 4/17 Review class

15 4/24 Test 2: Project Due

Please look at the course website at least once a week for news, notesor other issues.