Fall 2007 Syllabus

MIS 6323: Object Oriented Systems

Instructor: Dr. Jai Asundi, (SOM 3.418, 972-883-4776, asundi(AT)utdallas.edu)

Class hours: 7.00 to 9.45 pm, Wednesday,

Office Hours: 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm on Wednesday or by appointment

TA: Abhijeet Ghoshal, abhijeet.ghoshal(at)student.utdallas.edu, SOM 3.419, 972-883-4304

Course Text: JAVA: An Introduction to Problem Solving&Programming, Walter Savitch,

Prentice Hall, 4th Ed., 2005.

Prerequisite: Knowledge of operating personal computers, text editors and installing programs.

Course Objective:

The objective of the course is to introduce students to the issues of object oriented systems
development and understanding. Topics the students will learn by the end of the semester are:

• Software development lifecycle models

• Basics of Object Oriented Programming
• Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Programming in Java
• Other advanced topics(Patterns, MVC architecture) depending on time constraints

Course Evaluation:
1. Class Assignments (4 * 7 = 28%): There will be four or more homework assignments. The
four best assignments will be chosen to count towards 28% of the final grade.

2. Test 1 (25%): One and half hour test on 3rd October 2007.

3. Test 2 (25%): One and half hour test on 21st November 2007.

4. Class Project (22%): Each student is expected to develop an Object Oriented program as part of
a class project. This can be accomplished as part of a group. A group can have a maximum of two
students. There will be project walkthrough sessions at the end of certain classes or according to
class needs.

Make up exams will be allowed ONLY with the prior permission of the instructor.

Grading Policy (expected):

Depends on class performance

Scholastic dishonesty: Scholastic dishonesty will be dealt seriously and according to the
University policy available at http://www.utdallas.edu/student/slife/dishonesty.html

Tentative Class Schedule:

 Book Assignment
Week Day(s) Topic
Chapters
Course Introduction
1 8/22 Introduction to Software Development and 1
OO concepts
#1 out
2 8/29 UML and notations Notes
#1 due
3 9/5 Java: Primitive Types, Strings and I/O 2
#2 out
4 9/12 Java: Flow control 3
Java: Defining Classes, Methods and #2 due
5 9/19 4, 5
Objects #3 out
6 9/26 Java: Arrays 6
Review of material #3 due
7 10/3
Test 1 #4 out
8 10/10 Java: Inheritance 7
#4 due
10 10/17 Java: GUI using Swing 12
#5 out
11 10/24 Java: Exception Handling 8
#5 due
12 10/31 Java: Stream and File I/O 9
#6 out
13 11/7 Java: Dynamic Data Structures 10
#6 due
14 11/14 Other advanced topics in OO Programming Notes

15 11/21 Test 2

11/28 Project Due

Please look at the course website at least once a week for news, notes or other issues.