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11/01/2002 AT 2:00 PM
Course Schedule
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The following table contains the course schedule with a tentative list of the topics and textbook chapters to be covered for each class. The link pages will usually not contain useful information until a day or two before the class is taught.
| Class | Tuesday | Contents | Text | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 08/27/2002 | Abstraction, system development overview, course overview, systems concepts, event concepts, essential requirements, practical requirements. | SR 1,2,11,13 UML 1 | (Outline) (Summary) (Assign) (Answers) |
| 2 | 09/03/2002 | Models, physical and conceptual systems, general systems models, development content, development process. | SR 3,4,12 UML 2 | (Outline) (Summary) (Assign) (Answers) |
| 3 | 09/10/2002 | Problem identification, request analysis, actor identification, use case identification, event identification, freasibility criteria, risk analysis, function point estimating. | SR 5,6,7,8 | (Outline) (Summary) (Assign) (Answers) |
| 4 | 09/17/2002 |
Use case analysis, interaction diagrams, event analysis,
exception events, environmental models.
--- Assign first graded problem. | SR 9,10 UML 3,5 | (Outline) (Summary) (Assign) (Answers) |
| 5 | 09/24/2002 | Message structures, business rules, decision tables. | SR 14 | (Outline) (Summary) (Assign) (Answers) |
| 6 | 10/01/2002 | Discussion and review, mid-term exam. | --- | (Assign) |
| 7 | 10/08/2002 |
Object concepts, object paradigms, class models, instance models.
--- First graded problem is due. | UML 4,6 | (Outline) (Summary) (Assign) (Answers) |
| 8 | 10/15/2002 |
Domain object models.
--- Assign second graded problem. | UML 8 | (Outline) (Summary) (Assign) (Answers) |
| 9 | 10/22/2002 | State transition diagrams, object types (MVC), object analysis. | --- | (Outline) (Summary) (Assign) (Answers) |
| 10 | 10/29/2002 | High level design, mapping essential events to practical events, mapping analysis domain object models to design domain object, mapping object models to relational models. | UML 11 | (Outline) (Summary) (Assign) (Answers) |
| 11 | 11/05/2002 |
Management issues, case studies.
--- Second graded problem is due. | SR 16,17,18 | (Outline)
(Summary) |
| 12 | 11/12/2002 | Final exam. | --- | --- |
Prepared by David L. March -- Last Revised on November 1, 2002
COPYRIGHT © 2002 BY DAVID L. MARCH