CSC 454 Favorites

My favorite OO-related links out there... or not

My 454 favorites links, divided into nifty categories...

Links related to our textbooks:

www.netobjectives.com/dpexplained/ ... the web site for "Design Patterns Explained." The answers to the "Review Questions" at the end of each chapter are given at the site. There is some supplemental material about patterns not covered in the text as well. I didn't run into any annoying passwords or anything either.
authors.phptr.com/larman/uml_ooad/index.html ... the web site for "Applying UML and Patterns." This site isn't as good, and there's not much extra stuff here for students.
http://www.craiglarman.com/ ... author of "Applying UML and Patterns." This site is probably better than the publisher's site, but you have to surf for a while.

BTW, here are links to "other" textbooks that I considered for the course:

www.wirfs-brock.com/DesignBooks.html ... web site for the "Object Design" book by Wirfs-Brock and McKean
www.hfoobook.com/ ... I considered this book until I found out it hasn't been released yet. Ha! Actually, I like the HeadFirst series, and I'm going to snarf this book when it comes out.
www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfdp/ ... this Head First book is available. It's a very nice book on patterns because it's almost all example-based.

Links related to design patterns:

www.oozinoz.com/ ... This is a web site for the book "Design Patterns in Java." I have to get a copy of this book, which promises lots of examples and therefore might be a nice support book for 454
hillside.net/patterns/ ,,, a large design patterns repository

Wikipedia does very nice summaries of some of our favorite topics:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language - Wikipedia's summary on UML with a nice history section at the top and gobs of related links at the bottom
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Programming - Wiki-summary of XP
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_Unified_Process - Wiki-summary of RUP

Links related to OO design:

www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~maratb/readings/NoSilverBullet.html - Lord, I used to curse this guy (Fred Brooks) back in the day, but this is a good article from 1987 that makes a simple point about software development: there is no silver bullet. Or as Fred writes, "There is no single development, in either technology or in management technique, that by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. "
www.artima.com/intv/gosling3P.html - an article by Java co-creator, James Gosling. I think the sections titled "A Delegation-Only Language" and "Inheritance vs. Composition" were really interesting. Read on.
www.extremeprogramming.org/ ... a site introducing extreme programming (XP)
agilemodeling.com/ ... a site introducing agile development techniques
www.agilemanifesto.org/ ... another "agile" site
http://c2.com/doc/oopsla89/paper.html ... I'll actually handout a hardcopy version of this; it's a nice overview of CRC cards and their usage

Links similar to 454 that are taught at other schools.

http://brain.cs.uiuc.edu:8080/SECourse - University of Illinois course "Software Engineering"... not a perfect match, but they do use cases and similar stuff. To see the beginning of some use cases, try "Projects", then "Fall 2006 Projects", then peek at some of the projects.
www.cti.depaul.edu/courses/syllabus.asp?course=SE-430-202&q=4&y=2006&id=171 - Depaul University course "Object-Oriented Modeling"... it looks like they use our Larman text and list "Design Patterns Explained" as recommended reading
people.cs.uchicago.edu/~mark/51023/syllabus.html - University of Chicago course "OO Architecture, Design, Methodology"... nice reading list of articles and such
www.cs.northwestern.edu/academics/courses/394/spr-03/index.html - Northwestern University course "Software Project Management"... this isn't an exact match, though they do talk about agile methodologies
www.cs.virginia.edu/~horton/cs494/ - University of Virginia course "Object-Oriented Analysis and Design"... a little lower-level approach with a focus on Java

Links sans category:

java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/index.html ... the Java 5.0 API online... so sweet!
www.jgrasp.org ... the JGrasp IDE is very nice and available on the computers in the Noctrl lab
java.sun.com/ ... another popular Java IDE is NetBeans; it's more popular than Jgrasp (I believe) because it was developed by Sun and can be downloaded with Java. Click on the "Java SE" link in "Popular Downloads" to the right. I think most people will be happy with the "JDK 5.0 Update 7 with NetBeans 5.0" selection from here.

The future? There's a wonderful site by Ray Kurzweil that chronicles futuristic projects and results.

www.singularity.com ... Kurzweil's companion site to his book "The Singularity is Near" (the book is awesome BTW, and you can borrow it if you like). Click on resources to follow research project along with Kurzweil.
www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9003397 ... an example of an article, what storage technology will look like in 5-10 years: nanotubes, holographic disk, heat-assisted magnetic recording, and more!
www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10220-robot-cars-will-race-in-real-traffic.html ... DARPA's "Urban Grand Challenge". Excellent.