Thinking in Objects

Are you getting ready to tackle an object-oriented software development project? Are you at home with conventional procedural design approaches but new to object-oriented design? Are you still uncomfortable with O-O terminology? Would mastery of the new O-O techniques and tools like UML, CRC cards, use-cases, encapsulation, and sequence diagrams help you to be more effective in your work? If so, this course is for you.

Design problems are presented, and sample solutions are shown (both diagrammatically and in Java) and solution techniques are practiced. You will apply the techniques yourself, and your work will be reviewed with the instructor and discussed with the class.

In two intense days, you will acquire the terminology of this new software design paradigm, and you will be able to apply the most popular and widely-used techniques for creating and documenting object-oriented designs.

• The courseware is available on the web at http://www.keller.com/tio
• workbook, 250 pages, spiral-bound

• Emphasis on practical skills
• Lots of exercises, practice sessions, and discussion
• Instructor-led and classroom-based
• The materials for this class are available on the web

Chapter 1: Housekeeping

Chapter 2: Why Objects?

Chapter 3: The Vocabulary of O-O

Chapter 4: Below the Waterline: O-O Design

Chapter 5: Describing Requirements with Use Cases

Chapter 6: Identifying Potential Classes

Chapter 7: Finding the Core Classes

Chapter 8: Assigning Responsibilities to Classes

Chapter 9: CRC Cards

Chapter 10: Identifying Relationships and Developing the Class Diagram

Chapter 11: Using Sequence Diagrams to Specify Dynamic Behavior

Chapter 12: Iterative Construction

Chapter 13: Construction

Chapter 14: Other Developments in Objects

Chapter 15: Conclusion

Appendix A: Design Patterns

Appendix B: Architectural Patterns

• Explain and apply the object-oriented paradigm
• Design and use classes, objects, inheritance, superclasses, subclasses, container classes, and polymorphism
• Apply techniques of modularity, reusability, and encapsulation
• Reduce costs of programming
• Develop object-oriented designs with state of the art techniques including use-cases, class lists, assignment of responsibilities to and collaborations among classes, and dynamic behavior analysis
• Design and use constructors and other methods
• Do domain analysis and responsibility-driven design
• Recognize and apply design patterns
• Express designs in Unified Modeling Language (UML), Class, Responsibilities, and Collaborations (CRC) cards, use-case diagrams, class diagrams, and sequence diagrams

• classroom
• a PC for the instructor
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• a data projector
• connection to the Internet
• Detailed system configuration instructions are available at http://www.keller.com/tio/