SOEN6441 - fall 2014

Course Description

SOEN 6441 - Advanced programming practices (4 credits)

Problems of writing and managing code. Managing complexity: programming process. Pragmatic Programming. Coding conventions, software documentation. Software configuration management. Advanced debugging techniques: program tracing, dynamic inspection and tools. Testing: coding techniques for testing software. Multithreading concurrency and distributed programming. Multi-language programming. A project. Laboratory: two hours per week. Note: Students who have received credit for COMP 6441 may not take this course for credit.

Course Schedule and Contacts

component	day	time	location	instructor	e-mail address	web page
lecture U	M------	14:45-17:30	H-431	Paquet, J.	paquet@encs.concordia.ca
office hours D	--W-—--	11:00-13:00	EV-3-221	Paquet, J.
lab hours UI	M------	12:45-14:35	H-929	TBA
lab hours UJ	-T-----	17:45-19:35	H-929	Ricci, D.	da_ricci@encs.concordia.ca

Lecture Schedule

wk	date	event	topics (tentative)
week 1	sep 8		introduction to the course & project
week 2	sep 15	[sep 19] team lists due project description	extreme programming incremental software development agile vs predictive methods
week 3	sep 22		Software repositories coding style and standards inline documentation tools: javadoc
week 4	oct 29	Project build 1 requirements/grading scheme	Using JUnit in Eclipse Tutorial on JUnit in Eclipse
week 5	oct 6		Design patterns in Java
	oct 13	Thanksgiving, University closed
week 6	oct 20	midterm examination (no lecture) [oct 26] Deadline for withdrawal
week 7	oct 27	project build 1 due (presentations-no lecture)
week 8	nov 3	Project build 2 requirements/grading scheme (to be updated!)	fault tolerance through exception handling
week 9	nov 10		Quality in coding Refactoring
week 10	nov 17	project build 2 due (presentations-no lecture)
week 11	nov 24	Project build 3 requirements/grading scheme	Java Generics
week 12	dec 1		Multithreading in Java Multithreading tutorial
week 13	dec 8	project build 3 due (presentation)(to be updated!)
exam week	dec 3-18	final examination (TBD)

Course Material and Resources

• Course outline
• ENCS Electronic Student Submission System