CIS501 Lectures: Software Architecture

Week 1

Reference material: Using C# with Visual Studio and Nclass

Lecture 1: Introduction to software architecture; using Visual Studio

Exercise | VS folder | Exercise postmortem

Lecture 2: Classes model reality; unit testing

Exercise | VS folder

Assignment 1: Implement a card game.

Week 2

Lecture 3: Storage and object diagrams; using a debugger

Exercise | VS folder | sample solution | object diagram for sample solution

Lecture 4: Class diagrams

Exercise | VS folder

Assignment 2: Rebuild card game to match class-diagram design

Week 3

Lecture 5: Interfaces and Delegates

Tuesday Exercise

Thursday Exercise | Thursday VS folder

Week 4

Lecture 6: Coupling and the MVC software architecture

Tuesday Exercise | Tuesday VS folder

Thursday Exercise in folder

Assignment 3: Rebuild card game in MVC architecture

Week 5 (code-review meetings)

Week 6

Lecture 7: Use cases and realizations via communication and sequence diagrams

Exercise

Lecture 8: State diagrams and controllers

Exercise | VS folder

Assignment 4: design distributed banking system with UML diagrams

Week 7

Lecture 9: Multi-threaded execution and locks

Exercise | VS folder

Design-patterns prelude: Review of interfaces and delegates

Week 8 (exam) | Week 9 (spring break) | Week 10 (design-review meetings)

Week 11

Design Patterns I: Factories and Iterators

Exercise | VS folder

Design Patterns II: Virtual Proxies

Exercise | VS folder

Assignment 5: implement banking system

Week 12

Design Patterns IV: Composite pattern and Visitor pattern

Exercise | VS folder | Sample solution

Final project: Assignments 6 and 7: design and implement cloud-storage-based file-system app

Week 13

Design Patterns II again: Remote Proxies

Exercise | Remote Proxy VS folder | Use-case diagram of what you must do

Design Patterns III: Various Wrappers

Week 14 (no class meetings - work on project)

Read me: Wrapup on design patterns and introduction to version control

Read me too: Software architecture concepts

Week 15 (project-review meetings) | Week 16 (dead week) | Week 17 (finals week - upload project implementation)