Software Architecture
Bertrand Meyer, summer semester 2007
| 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
| 16.07.2007 | The movie of the project presentations is now available. Ilinca |
| 21.06.2007 | The project presentations by the selected groups are taking place today between 15.15 and 17.00 in room IFW A36. Ilinca |
| 14.06.2007 | The movie of this week's lecture ("Embedded and real time systems") is now available. Ilinca |
| 13.06.2007 | The final version of the slides of lecture 12 ("Embedded and real time systems") is now available. Ilinca |
| 13.06.2007 | The solution of assignment 2 ("Command Pattern") is now available. Ilinca |
| 07.06.2007 | The movie of this week's lecture ("Design patterns 4: structural (bridge, composite, decorator, façade, flyweight)") is now available. Ilinca |
| 05.06.2007 | The final version of the slides of lecture 11 ("Design patterns 4: structural (bridge, composite, decorator, façade, flyweight)") is now available. Michela |
| 05.06.2007 | The first version of the slides of lecture 11 ("Design patterns 4: structural (bridge, composite, decorator, façade, flyweight)") is now available. Michela |
| 01.06.2007 | The final version of the slides of lecture 10 ("Design patterns 3: creational (factory, builder, singleton)") is now available. Ilinca |
| 31.05.2007 | The movie of this week's lecture ("Design patterns 3: creational (factory, builder, singleton)") is now available. Ilinca |
| 25.05.2007 | A first version of the slides of lecture 10 ("More patterns: Factory, Builder, Singleton") is now available. Ilinca |
| 24.05.2007 | The final version of the slides of lecture 9 ("Concurrency and SCOOP") is now available. Ilinca |
| 22.05.2007 | A first version of the slides of lecture 9 ("Concurrency and SCOOP") is now available. Ilinca |
| 17.05.2007 | The final version of the slides of lecture 8 ("Design patterns 2: behavioral (visitor, strategy, state, chain of responsibility, command)") is now available. Ilinca |
| 17.05.2007 | The final version of the slides of lecture 7 ("Design patterns 1: behavioral (observer + event library, notion of componentization)") is now available. Ilinca |
| 10.05.2007 | An updated version of the project description is now available. Ilinca |
| 03.05.2007 | Reading material for next week's lecture "Design patterns 1: behavioral (observer + event library, notion of componentization)" on event-driven design is now available. Ilinca |
| 02.05.2007 | The solution of assignment 1 ("Abstract Data Types") is now available. Ilinca |
| 27.04.2007 | The final version of the slides of lecture 6 ("Exception handling") is now available. Ilinca |
| 19.04.2007 | The final version of the slides of lecture 5 ("Architecture of EiffelStudio") is now available. Ilinca |
| 18.04.2007 | First versions of the slides of lectures 6 ("Exception handling") and 7 ("Patterns, Observer, MVC") are now available. Ilinca |
| 17.04.2007 | The project description is now available. Ilinca |
| 16.04.2007 | The slides for lecture 5 ("EiffelStudio architecture and internals"), guest lecture by Emmanuel Stapf, are now available. Ilinca |
| 12.04.2007 | The first assignment is now online. Ilinca |
| 11.04.2007 | The final slides for lecture 4 ("Design by Contract") are now available. Ilinca |
| 04.04.2007 | Until further announcements, the exercise groups of Jason Wei and Martin Nordio will have the session together in room HG F 26.5. Ilinca |
| 04.04.2007 | The exercise session of Michela will take place from 8-9 in HG E 21. Michela |
| 03.04.2007 | The final slides for lecture 3 ("Language constructs for modularity and information hiding") are now available. Ilinca |
| 03.04.2007 | Updated the formats for the 1 slide/page pdfs of the first 3 lectures. Ilinca |
| 02.04.2007 | A first version of the slides for lecture 3 ("Language constructs for modularity and information hiding") is now available. Ilinca |
| 29.03.2007 | The exercise slides presented in the first exercise session (29.03.2007) are now available. Ilinca |
| 26.03.2007 | The lecture room has changed. From now on, the weekly lecture will be held in room IFW A 36. The day and time of the lecture stay the same: Tuesdays, 2 - 4 pm. Ilinca |
| 22.03.2007 | In the second week of the semester, there will be only one exercise session for everyone. It will be held on Thursday, 29.3.07, 3 - 4 pm, in room IFW A 36. Ilinca |
| 22.03.2007 | There is no exercise session in the first week. Ilinca |
| 21.03.2007 | Added general information about the exam. Ilinca |
| 20.03.2007 | The slides for lectures 1 and 2 (held on 20 March) are now available. Ilinca |
| 20.03.2007 | The tentative schedule for the course is now available. Martin |
| 14.03.2007 | We are looking for 2 Hilfassistenten. Please contact Martin Nordio if you are interested. Ilinca |
| 14.03.2007 | List of assistants available Ilinca |
| 06.03.2007 | Created web page Ilinca |
Course description
Software Architecture, 252-0050-00L
Description at the computer science department: 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
There is no testat for this course.
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
- Reading assignment of week 4: Niklaus Wirth, “Program Construction by Stepwise Refinement”, Communications of the ACM, 14, 4, (April 1971), p 221-227
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
Lectures
Schedule
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| Tuesday | 14:00-16:00 | IFW A36 |
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| Week 1 | Tuesday, 20.03.2007 | Introduction; A Basic Architecture Example |  |
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| Week 2 | Tuesday, 27.03.2007 | Modularity and reusability; Abstract Data Types |  |
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| Week 3 | Tuesday, 03.04.2007 | Language constructs for modularity and information hiding | |
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| Week 4 | Tuesday, 10.04.2007 | Design by Contract | |
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| Week 5 | Tuesday, 17.04.2007 | The architecture of a large product - Guest lecture by Emmanuel Stapf | |
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| Week 6 | Tuesday, 24.04.2007 | Exception handling | |
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| Week 7 | Tuesday, 01.05.2007 | No class ("Tag der Arbeit") | |||||||
| Week 8 | Tuesday, 08.05.2007 | Design patterns 1: behavioral (observer + event library, notion of componentization) | |
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| Week 9 | Tuesday, 15.05.2007 | Design patterns 2: behavioral (visitor, strategy, state, chain of responsibility, command (reminder)) | |
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| Week 10 | Tuesday, 22.05.2007 | Concurrent programming | |
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| Week 11 | Tuesday, 29.05.2007 | Design patterns 3: creational (factory, builder, singleton) | |
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| Week 12 | Tuesday, 05.06.2007 | Design patterns 4: structural (bridge, composite, decorator, façade, flyweight) | |
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| Week 13 | Tuesday, 12.06.2007 | Embedded and real-time systems | |
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| Week 14 | Thursday, 21.06.2007 | Project presentations | |
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Exercises
Schedule
Day |
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| Thursday | 15:00-16:00 | see corresponding assistant |
Exercise slides
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| 29.03.2007 | Abstract Data Types |
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Assignments
Date issued |
Date due |
Handout |
Solution |
| 12.04.2007 | 26.04.2007 | Abstract Data Types | Abstract Data Types (solution) |
| 10.05.2007 | 25.05.2007 | Command Pattern | Command Pattern (solution) |
Project
The project description lists possible topics, deliverables, deadlines, and the dates of the project presentations (last updated: 10 May 2007). Assistants
Assistant |
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Exercise room |
Language |
| Till Bay | RZ J8 | 044 632 76 33 | Th. 15-16 HG D 5.3 | German | |
| Michela Pedroni | RZ J8 | 044 632 76 84 | Th. 8-9 HG E 21 | German | |
| Ilinca Ciupa | RZ J4 | 044 632 44 49 | English | ||
| Martin Nordio* | RZ F9 | 044 632 02 97 | Th. 15-16 HG F 26.5 | English | |
| Jason Wei | RZ J9 | Th. 15-16 HG G 26.5 | English | ||
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