CS 635 Syllabus

Instructor	Roger Whitney
Office	GMCS 561
Phone	594-3535
Email	whitney@cs.sdsu.edu
Office Hours	4:15-5:15 pm, 8:30-9:30 pm Tuesday, Thursday

Course WWW Site : http://www.eli.sdsu.edu/courses/spring06/cs635/index.html . All course handouts will be delivered via WWW at the above URL.

Texts :

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides, Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Object Coupling and Object Cohesion, chapter 7 of Essays on Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Vol. 1, Berard, Prentice-Hall, 1993, Will be on reserve at Love Library and at Cal Copy.

Abstraction, Encapsulation, and Information Hiding, chapter 6 of Essays on Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Vol. 1, Berard, Available on-line at: http://www.toa.com/shnn?searticles

Big Ball of Mud by Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder, http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html

The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion, Alpert, Brown, Woolf (optional)

Course mailing list : A list server is used to email important messages to students in the course. There is a link on the course web site .

Prerequisites : CS535 and working knowledge of Java, C++, C#, Ruby or Smalltalk.

Grading : Your grade will be based on two exams (50% of your grade) and homework (50% of your grade). There is no extra credit work in this course.

Crash Policy : As seats become available in class graduate students on the crash list will be added based on units earned toward your SDSU masters degree on your SDSU transcript. Students with more units given priority over those with fewer units. Students need to turn in a copy of their SDSU transcript to demonstrate how many units they have. An unofficial transcript will be fine.

Late Policy : Late homework will be accepted, but with a penalty. An assignment turned in 1-7 days late, will lose 3% of the total value of the assignment per day late. The eight day late the penalty will be 40% of the assignment, the ninth day late the penalty will be 60%, after the ninth day late the penalty will be 90%. Once a solution to an assignment has been posted or discussed in class, the assignment will no longer be accepted. Late penalties are always rounded up to the next integer value.

Cheating : Any one caught cheating will receive an F in the course and they will be reported to the SDSU Judicial Procedures Office.

Recycling : Paper makes up 40% of the garbage in this country. Please recycle all the paper you no longer need. The city of San Marcos thanks you for recycling.