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Comp 373/473: Advanced Object-Oriented Development

http://www.cs.luc.edu/laufer/teaching/473

Under construction for Spring 2010 (topics and textbook info are up-to-date)

Prerequisite: Comp 313/488

Audience

Are you an enthusiastic programmer looking for new challenges? Did you enjoy Comp 313/488 (Intermediate Object-Oriented Development) and want to take things to the next level? If so, then this completely redesigned version of Comp 373 (Objects, Frameworks, and Patterns)/Comp 473 (Object-Oriented Programming) offered in Spring 2010 might be just what you are looking for.

Topics

Based on the foundation acquired in Comp 313/488, Comp 373/473 studies cutting-edge topics, such as

introduction to the Scala language
advanced language mechanisms: pattern matching, traits, and closures
implementation of object-oriented languages
concurrency: threads versus actors
introspection, class loaders, and byte-code manipulation
aspect-oriented programming
lightweight containers and dependency injection
domain-specific languages

Required main text:

Programming Scala, 1st Edition

By: Dean Wampler; Alex Payne

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Pub. Date: September 15, 2009

Print ISBN-13: 978-0-596-15595-7

Recommended supplementary texts:

Effective Java, Second Edition

By: Joshua Bloch

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Pub. Date: May 08, 2008

Print ISBN-10: 0-321-35668-3

Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition

By: Michael Scott

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Pub. Date: March 23, 2009

eISBN-10: 0-08-092299-6

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

By: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

Publisher: Addison Wesley

Pub. Date: 1995

eISBN-10: 0201633612

All texts except Gamma et al. are available for free on Safari Proquest.

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