CMSC 433 Programming Language Technologies and Paradigms - Spring 2001

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Feb 1	Core C++, Chapters 1-3
Feb 6	Core C++, Chapters 4-7
Feb 8	Core C++, Chapters 8-9
Feb 13	Core C++, Chapters 10, 12-14
Feb 13	Core C++, Chapters 10, 12-14
Feb 22	Thinking in Java, Chapter 1 and 11 (pages 573-606)
Feb 27	Thinking in Java, Chapter 12 and 15 (pages 903-923)
Mar 6	Thinking in Java, Chapters 8 and 9
Mar 16	RMI - Thinking in Java, pages 973 - 979
Mar 27	More RMI RMI Tutorial Discussion of changing your .java.policy file for Java 1.2 Sample .java.policy file RMI-Chat Program RMI-Chat Interfaces Client.java Connection.java Server.java RMI-Chat Server ConnectionImpl.java ServerImpl.java RMI-Chat clients ChatApplet.java ChatSwing.java ClientImpl.java
March 29	A Note on Distributed Computing
April 5th	Comparison of DCOM, CORBA and RMI.
April 5th	Growing a Language
April 5th	Jini tutorials here and here A better Corba overview GJ tutorial paper
April 19	Software components Component-Oriented Programming The Significance of Components Bertrand Meyer, On to Components, Computer, January 1999
April 24th	The Component Object Model: A Technical Overview
May 3rd	Sun's JavaBeans tutorial
May 10th	Design patterns FAQ Welcome to the wonderful world of design patterns Design Patterns web page -- for reference purposes
May 15th	The State Design Pattern: 1, 2, Google lookup The Visitor Design Pattern: 1, 2, Google lookup

C++ (2 weeks)
- C++ without classes
- Abstraction with member functions
- Automatic/hidden functions
- Care and handling of pointers
- References
- Shared representations
- Base classes, subtype polymorphism and inheritance
Java (2 weeks)
- Basics
- Object oriented programming in Java
- Libraries
- Exceptions
- Inner classes
Midterm: C++ and Java
Threads (2 weeks)
- Thread creation
- Synchronization
- Wait/notify
- thread patterns
Distributed computation (3 weeks)
- RMI/RPC
- Marshalling, stubs and proxies
- Java RMI
- Jini
Midterm
Components (1 week)
- What is a component
- What features do we need for component programming?
- Versioning
- Components, interfaces and re-entrance
- Polymorphism, revisited
- Inheritance: good or evil
COM basics (1 week)
Java Components basics (1 week)
- Using interfaces for components
- Reflection
- Serialization
- Beans
- Remote Method Invocation
Enterprise Java Beans? (1 week)
Final exam

C++: The Core Language By Gregory Satir & Doug Brown
Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel. A complete copy of the book can be downloaded for free.