Software Architecture
Bertrand Meyer, spring semester 2009
| General info: | News | Course description | Course book | Testat and exam | Forum | Downloads | Further reading |
| Lecture: | Schedule | Slides |
| Exercises: | Schedule | Exercise slides | Assignments | Assistants |
General info
News
| 7.05.2009 |
An overview of all design patterns mentioned in the lecture is added |
| 30.04.2009 |
The assignment for designing a pattern is issued. |
| 21.04.2009 |
The assignment for contracting a pattern is issued. |
| 24.03.2009 |
The assignment for design patterns is issued. |
| 03.03.2009 |
The assignment for ADT is issued. |
| 26.02.2009 |
Schedule for exercise sessions is added. |
| 15.02.2009 |
There is no exercise session in the first week (19.02). The exercise session in the second week (26.02) is arranged in HG D 7.1 from 15:15-16:00. |
| 11.02.2009 | A Programming Capability Test as Testat will be performed in the first lecture on 17.02. |
| 04.02.2009 | First preliminary version of web page. The schedule, assistants and exercise session venues are incomplete and tentative. |
Course
description
Software Architecture, 252-0050-00L
Description in the course catalogue: see here
Course
book
- Bertrand Meyer: Object-Oriented Software Construction, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 1997 ISBN 0-13-629155-4
Other (recommended) books:
- Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0201634988
- Karine Arnout: From Patterns to Components, Ph.D. thesis, 2004. (See publications)
Testat and Exam
Testat: Programming Capability Test
The aim of the test is to assess:
- Your programming ability after 3 semesters, as this is necessary to teach the course at the right level.
- How well the first-year courses, in particular "Introduction to Programming", have reached their aims.
The test will be pen-and-paper; make sure you have a pen as for an exam. In general the rules are the same as for an exam -- no materials available, no computers, cell phones etc. The test will take 90 minutes (14:30-16:00, IFW A36) on Feb 17 without a break. We are starting at 14:30 to give you time to set down; plan to arrive at 14:15 as usual.
The test will be corrected but will not affect your course grade (which as usual will come from the course exam). For any major and justified impediment (illness, military service) please contact your assistant, or if you do not know yet who your assistant will be, Yi (Jason) Wei, the head assistant, Yi.Wei@inf.ethz.ch.
The test is programming-language-independent, but most of the questions involve writing a program element. Since the goal is to assess knowledge acquired at ETH, the programming answers must use Eiffel. If you are joining from another university (and in that case only) you will be permitted to write the answers in the language that you were taught (if it's one of the major languages), but you must write to Jason ahead of the exam to arrange for this.
The test consists of a number of programming exercises of varying difficulty, intended to assess general programming ability.
Exam
The exam will be written and will take place during the last lecture of the semester. No supplementary material is allowed except for dictionaries.
Previous Software Architecture exams: Readings
- None yet.
Forum
You can use the forum to ask course- and exercise-related questions. The assistants will do their best to answer your questions as soon as possible. Click here to access the forum!.
The forum is not maintained by us, but by the Verein der Informatik Studierenden.
Downloads
- Eiffel syntax description in BNF-E (extract from Eiffel: the language).
- Do it with style by Marcel Kessler (summary of style guidelines for Eiffel).
- Eiffel introduction
Further
reading
- Pete Thomas, Ray Weedon: Object-Oriented Programming in Eiffel, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley Eiffel in Practice Series, ISBN 0-201-33131-4
- Frieder Monninger: Eiffel. Objektorientiertes Programmieren in der Praxis, H. Heise Verlag, Hannover, ISBN 3-882-29028-5
- Bertrand Meyer: La produzione del software object oriented. Prentice Hall International, Hemel Hempstead, ISBN 88-256-0205-7
- Giuseppe Callegarin: Nuovo corso di informatica. Basi di dati e sistemi informativi. Per le Scuole superiori. CEDAM, ISBN 8-813-19565-6
- Version Control with Subversion
- James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch: The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual. Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 978-0321245625
- Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson: The Unified Modeling Language User Guide. Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 978-0201571684
- Martin Fowler: UML Distilled. A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language. Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 978-0321193681
- A web service for generating UML sequence diagrams
Lectures
Schedule
Day |
Time |
Room |
|
| Tuesday | 14:00-16:00 | IFW A36 |
Slides
Exercises
- There is no exercise session in the first week (19.02).
- The exercise session in the second week (26.02) is arranged
in HG D 7.1 from 15:15-16:00.
Schedule
Day |
Time |
Room |
| Thursday | 8:15-9:00 or 15:15-16:00 |
see corresponding assistant
|
Exercise
Sessions
Date |
Task
|
Material
|
| Week 3-5 |
Abstract Data Type - Analyze and prove ADTs |
introduction |
| Week 6-8 |
Design pattern application - Practise some patterns covered in the lecture |
observer |
| Week 10-11 |
Contract a pattern - Write contracts for a pattern |
introduction source |
| Week 12-14 |
Design a pattern - Design a pattern to provide flexible solution to a problem |
|
| Week 13 |
Exam preparation |
design patterns overview |
Assignments
Date issued |
Date due |
Handout |
Solution |
| 03.03.2009 |
17.03.2009 |
adt_exercise.pdf |
adt_solution.pdf |
| 24.03.2009 |
09.04.2009 |
pattern_exercise |
command visitor bridge |
| 21.04.2009 |
29.04.2009 |
Contract a pattern |
Contract a pattern_solution |
| 30.04.2009 |
14.05.2009 |
Design a pattern |
Contacts
Assistant |
Office |
Phone |
Time |
Exercise room |
Language |
| Michela Pedroni | RZ J8 | 044 632 76 84 | 15:15 - 16:00 |
HG E 21 |
German |
| Nadia Polikarpova | RZ J8 | 044 632 65 74 | 15:15 - 16:00 |
HG G 26.5 |
English |
| Nikolay Kazmin | 15:15 - 16:00 |
HG F 26.5 |
English | ||
| Ristin Marko | 8:15 - 9:00 |
HG E 21 |
German | ||
| Stephan van Staden | RZ J5 | 044 632 77 04 | 8:15 - 9:00 |
HG E 22 |
English |
| Yi Wei (Jason)* | RZ J5 | 044 632 69 57 | 15:15 - 16:00 |
HG D 5.3 |
English |
| * Organizing Assistant | |||||