Summer 2006, MW 3 - 4:30, Levine 307 or in lab as noted on certain dates
 
Last modified 01/25/2011

Summer class times at Penn
 

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Projects - 55%

Lecture Materials

• in Moore 100A lab
• please read Chapter 1 in the Troelsen C# book (29 pages)

• please work through the Standard Windows Application tutorial -- please read the code!

• in Moore 100A lab
• Event code sample: dismissing forms
• Delegate code sample: callback by delegate
• here's a sample project for raising an event
• here's a sample project that sends a delegate (instead of raising an event)
• read in Design Patterns, Towne 217 call# QA76.64.D47 1995: in Blackboard!
  • From p14 to Section 1.7 on p 28
  • Read the Singleton pattern, pp 127-133
  • Read the intro to the MVC pattern, pp 4-6
  • Read the Observer pattern, pp 293-303

• in Moore 100A lab
• here's the code from class for making an asynchronous call to a web service
• here's a sample project that calls a delegate asynchronously in a worker thread (here's its form code)
• read Williams call# QA76.73.C154 W554 2002: in Blackboard!
  • ch. 10 on "Threading", pp 267 - 278, pp 284 - 288, p 296 "Conclusion" paragraph
  • ch 21 on "SOAP and Web Services", pp 683 - 705

• a case study in the risk of prototyping
• read first 2 chapters in Mythical Man Month (thru p 26)
• supplementary reserve readings in Towne 217 for this lecture (only for models covered in class): in Blackboard!
  • Pressman ch. 3, pp 44-70, "Prescriptive Process Models" call# QA76.758 .P75 2005
  • Pressman ch 4, pp 71-94, "Agile Development"
  • Pressman ch 2, pp 30-31, "CMMI"
  • Ghezzi et al., pp 402-419, "Process Models" call# QA76.758 .G47 2003
  • Sommerville pp 65-74, "Process Models" call# QA76.758 .S657 2004
  • Sommerville pp 82-85, "Rational Unified Process"
   

• in Moore 100A lab
• read Ch. 33 and 34 (pp 819-853) in Code Complete,Towne 217 call# QA76.76.D47 M39 2004 in Blackboard!

• here's the NunitDemo_Counter_V13.zip (FxCop and Nunit test project for the last class)
• supplementary reserve readings in Towne 217 for this lecture: in Blackboard!
  • Pressman p 81, "Testing" call# QA76.758 .P75 2005
  • Pressman ch. 13, pp 354-385, "Testing Strategies"; mainly focus on section 13.3.1 (Unit Testing) and the paragraph on "Regression Testing" on p. 369

• in Moore 100A lab
• optional reading: Williams ch. 14 on "GDI+", pp 423 - 474
• sample project: gradient picker
• sample project: lines and ellipses
• sample project: showdate (draws bitmap for system tray icon)
• sample project: embed bitmaps using a resource file

• Quiz 1 - 10% of grade
• in Refactoring in Towne 217, read Ch. 2 (pp 53-73), "Principles of Refactoring", and Ch. 3 (pp 75-87), "Bad Smells in Code"; call# QA76.76.R42 F69 1999 in Blackboard!
• read in Extreme Programming, 2nd Ed. chapter 7, pp 37-53 in Blackboard!

• skim Ch 5 (pp 75-123) in Code Complete,Towne 217 call# QA76.76.D47 M39 2004;
  • carefully read section 5.1 (pp 74-77) and the intro to section 5.5 (pp 118-119) in Blackboard!

• project plan class presentations

• read Mythical Man Month call# QA76.758 .B75 1995:
  • ch. 5, pp 53-58, "The Second System Effect"
  • ch 14, pp 153-160, "Hatching a Catastrophe"
  • "dissing flow charts", pp 169-169
  • "self-documenting code", p 172

SQL Tutorial
      and sample code

Connecting to a database

the Query Tester utility

• in Moore 100C lab
• read Williams Ch 18, pp 567-576 "ADO" (read down to "Initiating Transactions on p 576)
 in Blackboard!
• I will try to demo the MSIL Disassembler and the VS.NET Obfuscator
  • DevX Article: Obfuscation: Cloaking your Code from Prying Eyes
  • There are multiple .NET obfuscators (scroll down about midway in the page)

Code Reviews - (.ppt)
User Interface Design - (.ppt)

• read Williams "Conclusion" on p 563 on GUI style expectations  in Blackboard!

• class exercise on creating automated data feeds in large information systems
• read Williams Ch 3,  pp 81-100 about various aspects of .NET memory management  in Blackboard!
• read MSDN on .NET Garbage Collection
• read MSDN on C# Using Statement

• sample projects: SHA-256 hash digest and Base64 conversion
• use of isolated storage for user settings in Windows is described in this article on DirectX and games 

• Quiz 2 - 10% of grade

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