Resources

Use this page to list additional Resources that may be helpful to your students.

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Textbooks: the following texts are recommended and are available on reserve in the Library:

Bertrand Meyer, Touch of Class: Learning how to Program Well, with Objects and Contracts, Springer Verlag, revised printing, 2013, book page here (this is a complete course with slides, videos and exercises). The text Touch of Class is available with online access via Steacie Library. The book describes computational thinking with the Eiffel language. Use this text to learn about design by contract, polymorphism, static typing, dynamic binding, genericity, multiple inheritance, and lambda expressions (agents). These are all topics needed for this course.
[OOSC2] Bertrand Meyer. Object-Oriented Software Construction. Second edition. Prentice Hall, 1997. This is a classic text on software design principles.
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, 1994, by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
BON (Business Object Notation). The BON method for analysis and design of object-oriented software is a means of extending the higher-level concepts of the Eiffel programming language into the realm of analysis and design aided by a graphical notation akin to but different from UML. BON is described in depth in the book Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture, Prentice Hall 1994, by Kim Waldén and Jean-Marc Nerson. The book is out of print but is available as a pdf. There is a template in Visio to do nice BON diagrams.