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Notes	Examples	Assignments
Introduction Topic 1 Topic 2 Topic 3 Topic 4 Topic 5 Topic 6	Interface Pattern Singleton Pattern	Lab#1

Mark Breakdown

• Assignments: 50%
• To be announced (probably will be 4 or 5).
• Midterm:  25%
• Final:   25%
• Important Note:  You must pass the final to pass the course.

• Recommended:

Patterns in JavaTM : A Catalog of Reusable Design Patterns Illustrated with UML, Mark Grand, Wiley Computer Publishing, 1998
• Alternative:

Design Patterns, Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software, Erich Gamma, John Helms, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides, Addison-Wesley, 1995

The students are assumed to:

• Be proficient with the Java language and JDK.
• Understand the basic OO concepts of Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance, Polymorphism and Composition.
• Have some knowledge of the AWT.
• Have some knowledge of threading (this may or may not be needed in this course).
• Have passed the required pre-requisite courses.

• This course is part of BCIT's multi-media program.
• This is not a course about multi-media.
• Assignments will be graded more on how and if they work, how they are designed and implemented.
• Assignments will not be graded on how pretty they look.

• The student is responsible to produce their own code --- Plagiarism is not tolerated.
• Students are encouraged to discuss design issues together.  This includes
• overall architecture,
• class level designs,
• Where two or more students have worked on a design together, the assignment submission must indicate who those students are (i.e.: give credit where credit is due).