Office hours

• Sunday 8 - 10 p.m.: Mat Gray in the GHC 4100 corridor.
• Monday 8 - 10 p.m.: Shannon Lee in the GHC 4100 corridor.
• Tuesday 6 - 8 p.m.: Dan Lu in the GHC 4100 corridor.
• Tuesday 8 - 10 p.m.: Alex Lockwood in the GHC 4100 corridor.
• Wednesday 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.: Jonathan Aldrich in Wean 4216.
• Wednesday 6 - 8 p.m.: Bailey Forrest in the GHC 4100 corridor.
• Thursday 7 - 9 p.m.: Beth Anne Katz in the GHC 4100 corridor.
• Friday 1:30 - 3 p.m.: Charlie Garrod in Wean 5101.

Instructors

Professor Jonathan Aldrich

Professor Charlie Garrod

Both instructors have an open door policy: If either of the instructors' office doors are open and no-one else is meeting with us, we are happy to answer any course-related questions. For appointments, email the instructors.

Course Syllabus and Policies

Covers course overview and objectives, evaluation, time management, late work policy, and collaboration policy

Textbooks

Required text:

• Alan Shalloway and James Trott. Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design (Second Edition).
  

Optional references by topic:

• Design Patterns
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• This is an excellent book, but more of a reference text than the Design Patterns Explained book. In addition, because it was the original patterns book, the examples are in C++ and Smalltalk, not Java
  
• Concurrency
• Java Concurrency in Practice
• Excellent book on concurrency in Java
• The Art of Multiprocessor Programming
• An excellent, more general book on parallel programming
  
• Java
• Note: Here are some popular textbook and online resources for learning Java. I have not looked at them in enough detail to specifically recommend one over the others.
  
• Head First Java (available physically and electronically in the CMU libraries)
  
• Introduction to Java Programming (the Comprehensive version has the benefit of covering threads too)
• Introduction to Programming Using Java (free online textbook)
  
• Blue Pelican Java (free online textbook)
  

The physical books above have all been requested to be on reserve in the Engineering and Science Library.

Course Piazza Site

Used for discussion groups

Course Help Topics

A few HowTos

Schedule of Topics, Readings, and Assignments

Below is the schedule of topics and lecture notes for the course. Assignments are due at 11:59 p.m. on their scheduled due date (unless otherwise indicated within the assignment document).

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