Advanced Java Programming
Course number: 51037 Location: Ryerson 251 Time: Thursday 5:30-8:30pm
Professor: Adam Gerber, PhD, SCJP Office: 3:30 to 5:30 Ryerson 255 (from 6/30/2016 on) Email: gerber@uchicago.edu
TA: David Selvaraj Office: Tuesdays Gleacher Center cafeteria 5pm to 7pm Email: david.m.selvaraj@gmail.com
Course description
In this course, you will develop the skills required to create sophisticated Java applications. We will cover RESTful web-services, Spring Framework, Git, Maven, Java features such as new I/O, advanced java concurrency, the JavaFX framework, and various technologies of Java8, including functional programming and the streams API. We will also discuss advanced generics and important design patterns used in Java. A strong emphasis will be placed on applying sound principles of contemporary software engineering to real-world problems. Students are required to bring their laptops and follow-along during labs. All required readings and videos must be read/watched prior to the date under which they are listed below. This course will be taught as a seminar. You will be expected to contribute in the following ways: do original research on Java and Java ecosystem technologies, organize your research with powerpoint slides and bitbucket projects, and effecively communicate and share your research to the rest of the class.Please create and register your bitbucket account here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1T_5VCZoRimBx0nn3_cWP1e5MfUt01bnN90Rb7_KTsHY/viewform
| Content: | All the course content, including; videos, slides, projects, and labs are all located http://gerber.cs.uchicago.edu/advjava/content/
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| Textbooks |
We will be using: Java8 in Action by Urma ISBN: 978-1617291999 Core Java for the Impatient by Horstmann ISBN: 978-0-321-99632-9 Spring REST by Varanasi ISBN: 978-1-4842-0823-6. |
| Slides | Slides are available here (http://gerber.cs.uchicago.edu/advjava/content/slides) |
| Slack: | Please join the slack channel. We will be using this to communicate during class: https://mythicmobile.slack.com/messages/aj2016/ |
| Software Tools | Here's a checklist of software we are using in this class
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Evaluations
The final grade is determined as| Weight | |
|---|---|
| proClient | 10% |
| proImageshop | 10% |
| proThreaded | 10% |
| proWebservice | 20% |
| Team Project/Presentation | 25% |
| Final exam | 15% |
| Class participation | 10% |
Individual Projects due dates
A cron script will be triggered at 11:59pm on the due date which will fetch your project from your private remote bitbucket repository.Your projects will be graded according to the state your project was in when the chron script ran. No exceptions.
| Due Date | |
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| proClient | July 13 11:59pm |
| proImageshop | July 27 11:59pm |
| proThreaded | August 10 11:59pm |
| proWebservice | August 24 11:59pm |
Possible Curve
The MPCS policy allows for 30% maximum of "A"s to be awarded in a course. Your final raw score may be either curved up or down. If there are more than 30% of the raw final scores that fall into the "A" range (93-100), I must curve the raw scores down, however I usually curve the raw scores up to award as many "A"s as possible.
Projects evaluation criteria
- 40% does the software work according to the specification—or as expected
- 20% performance and exceptions; are your algorithms elegant/efficient with respect to threads and resources, or clumsy/wasteful. Does the software handle exceptions.
- 20% code style; naming variables, formatting, ease of reading, well-documented.
- 20% Is the UI well designed and intuitive