PAtterns For Software Design

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PAtterns For Software Design

• Dr M G Srikanthan

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Overview

• Abstract Aim
• learning outcomes
• Syllabus Outline
• Teaching and Learning Strategy
• Assessment
• Reading List

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Abstract Aim

• To develop the ability to apply and justify
• the use of Patterns in software engineering.

Complexity of Information System
Pattern Oriented Design
Object Oriented Design
Entity Oriented Design
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Pre-requisite

• Object Oriented Programming
• C
• JAVA
• Smaltalk
• C
• UML
• Class Diagram
• Sequence Diagram
• Use Case Diagram

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Learning Outcome

• Analyse the importance of patterns in software
  development.
• Design and develop software using existing
  patterns.
• Evaluate pattern catalogues.
• Critique the techniques required for developing
  new patterns and incorporating them into a
  pattern language.

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Syllabus Outline

• History and development of pattern languages.
• Pattern catalogues.
• Application of patterns for software development.
• Writing patterns.
• Introducing patterns into an organisation.

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Teaching and Learning Strategy

• Lecture
• Student-centred learning
• group discussions
• Personal research
• Extensive reading

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Assessment

• Credit Points 10
• 100 Course (no exam)
• Assessing both theory and practical skills

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Course related sites

• Course material and recommended reading
• http//www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/chandlej/PAFS
  D.html
• http//pafsd.blogspot.com

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Reading List the concept

• Alexander, C. (1977) A pattern language towns
  buildings construction, OUP,  ISBN 0195019199
  Alexander, C. (1979) The timeless way of
  building, OUP, ISBN 0195022483
• Alexander, C. (1993) A foreshadowing of 21st
  Century Art, OUP, ISBN 0195208668

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Reading List - Textbooks

• Gamma, E., Helm, R., Johnson R., Vlissides, J.
  (1995) Design Patterns elements of reusable
  software, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201633612
  (A.K.A. "Gang of Four Book (GoF)")
• Eric Freeman and Elizabeth Freeman with Kathy
  Sierra Bert Bates (2004) Head First Design
  Patterns , OReilly , ISBN 0596007124
• Cooper, J.W. (2000) JavaTM Design Patterns A
  Tutorial, Addison Wesley Longman, ISBN
  0201485397
• Alpert, S.R., Brown, K. Woolf, B. (1998) The
  Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion, Addison
  Wesley, ISBN 0201184621

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Reading List - Others

• Buschmann, F., Meunier, R., Rohnert, H.,
  Sommerlad, P. Stal, M. (1996) Pattern-Oriented
  Software Architecture A System of Patterns, John
  Wiley Sons, ISBN 0471958697
• Gabriel, R.P., (1996) Patterns of software Tales
  from the software community, Oxford University
  Press, ISBN 0195121236 - also available to
  download from Richard Gabriel's web site
  Dreamsongs
• Gabriel, R.P., (2002) Writers' Workshops and the
  Work of Making Things, Addison-Wesley, ISBN
  020172183X

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Reading List - Others

• Grand, M. (1998) Patterns in Java, Volume 1, John
  Wiley Sons, ISBN 0471258393
• Larman, C. (1998) Applying UML and Patterns,
  Prentice Hall, ISBN 0137488807
• Rising, L. (2000) The Pattern Almanac 2000, 
  Addision Wesley, ISBN 020161567 3
• Rising, L. Manns, M.L. (2004) Fearless Change
  patterns for introducing new ideas, Addision
  Wesley, ISBN 0201741571

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Thank You