Dipartimento di InformaticaUniversità degli Studi di Milano

Computing systems 22008/09

MSc in Applied Mathematics · MSc in Mathematics · University of Milan · Lectures are in Italian · 4 credits · 24 hours

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This course explains advanced techniques for object oriented programming and software design.

News

  1. Computing systems 2 project

    The project textis available. Students should send via e-mail their source code and take an appointment.

  2. Festivity of June 2nd

    The class of June 2nd of Computing systems 2 will be held on June 3rd at 14:30 in the LID laboratory.

Course schedule

Lectures will take place at the Mathematics department, according to the following schedule:

Day Hour Place
Tuesday 14:30 - 16:30 LID
Thursday 14:30 - 17:00 aula 5

Any change to the schedule will be announced in class and published in paragraph News of this page.

Office hours

By appointment, room 5015 of the Computer Science Department. It is possible contact the teacher by e-mail, taking care to read in advance the guide prepared by Prof. Sebastiano Vigna and clearly specifying in the message the course name and the academic year. In particular, students are encouraged to always use their academic address (i.e. based on the domain studenti.unimi.it) signing with name and student ID number and recalling that the response time may vary depending on the teacher commitments.

Course material

The part on design patterns is based on the book: Partha Kuchana, Software Architecture Design Patterns in Java, Auerbach Publications (ISBN: 0849321425).

The part on unit tests is based on the tutorial on Java.net.

The part on the Java Collections Framework is based on the tutorial from Sun.

The part on introspection is based on the tutorial from Sun.

The part on concurrent programming is based on the tutorial from Sun.

The part on SWT is based on the tutorials about basic widgets and layout managers from the University of Manitoba.

The part on MVC is based on the initial part of Building Graphical User Interfaces with the MVC Pattern, although the code shown in class implements the same examples using different techniques and exploiting the SWT library. The used widgets are explained in the tutorial about advanced widgets from the University of Manitoba.

The part on serialization is based on the tutorial from Sun.

The part of generics is based on the basic and advanced tutorials from Sun.

The part on networks programming is based on the first three sections of the tutorial from Sun.

The part on HTML document analysis is based on the tutorial from Sun.

The part on regular expression is based on the tutorial from Sun.

Syllabus

The course explains the topics listed in the lecture calendar, covering the textbook contents in chapters 2, 10-20, 22-26, 29-36, as well as in the tutorials listed in section Course material.

Lectures calendar

Lecture Date Topic Material
l00 Introduction to the lab
L01 05/03/2009 Creational patterns
l01 10/03/2009 Creational patterns
L02 12/03/2009 Input/output and structural patterns
l02 17/03/2009 Input/output and structural patterns
L03 19/03/2009 Collections and behavioural patterns
l03 24/03/2009 Collections and behavioural patterns
L04 26/03/2009 Reflection and proxy objects
l04 31/03/2009 Reflection and proxy objects
L05 02/04/2009 Composite, interpreter and visitor
l05 07/04/2009 Composite, interpreter and visitor
L06 16/04/2009 Concurrent programming
l06 21/04/2009 Concurrent programming
L07 23/04/2009 Graphical interfaces
l07 28/04/2009 Graphical interfaces
L08 30/04/2009 Model-View-Controller
l08 05/05/2009 Model-View-Controller
L09 07/05/2009 Object serialization
l09 12/05/2009 Object serialization
L10 14/05/2009 Generics
l10 19/05/2009 Generics
L11 21/05/2009 Network programming
l11 26/05/2009 Network programming
L12 28/05/2009 Network programming and Web page analysis
l12 03/06/2009 Network programming and Web page analysis

Exam modalities

The exam consists in the implementation of an individual project, to be presented by appointment.