Software Development One

Spring 2014

Documents

• Syllabus and Schedule - Revised April 22, 2014
• Course Policies
• Academic Honesty
• Academic Calendar

Books

• Java Foundations, second edition - by Lewis, DePasquale, and Chase
  • Buy it used on Amazon.com
  • Source code from the publisher's site
• Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel - A great book. Download for free.
• Java Language and Virtual Machine Specifications
• Code Complete by Steve McConnell - Read this!
• Beautiful Code by Andy Oram & Greg Wilson
• Coders at Work by Peter Seibel

Assignments

• Project One
• Project Two
• Project Three
• Project Four
• Magic Items

Code

• Simple Game in JavaScript v1 - January 23 lab - Reviewing JavaScript
• Simple Game v1 in Java - January 24 class - Getting started in Java
• Simple Game v2 in Java - January 28 class - Now with a game loop and input!
• Simple Game v3 in Java - February 4 before class - Now with arrays!
• Simple Game v3 in Java - February 4 after class - 2D-arrays and TODOs for next lab
• Simple Game v4 in Java - February 6 lab - 2D-array for better navigation code
• Simple Game v5 with Locale class - February 7 class - Introducing the Locale class
• Simple Game v6 with Locale class - February 11 class - Gameplay enhancements
• Simple Game v7 with Locale class and Space subclass - February 14 class - Space!!!
• Simple Game in JavaScript v2 - February 14 class - Prototypes
• Simple Game v8 with Locale class and Space subclass - February 18 class - Exception handling
• Game, Locale, Space, List0, and ListItem - February 21 class - The beginnings of a linked list
• ListMan v1, ListItem, and ListTester - February 25 class - Linked List example
• ListMan v2, ListItem, and ListTester - February 27 lab - Enhanced ListMan
• ListMan v3, ListItem, and ListTester - February 28 class - Enhanced ListMan and reading items from a text file
• ListTester with Sequential Search - March 4 class - Linear Searching a Linked List
• ListTester, now using an array too - March 7 class - Reading from a file into a linked list and into array.
• ListTester with Selection Sort and ListMan v6 - April 1 class
• ListTester with Binary Search - April 4 class
• StackTester v1 and Stack v1 - April 22 class
• StackTester v2 and Stack v2 - April 25 class
• QueueTester and Queue - April 29 class

Resources

• C
• How to Program a Text Adventure in C
• Java
• IntelliJ IDEA
• Virual Studio Code
• NetBeans
• Eclipse
• Debugging Java in IntelliJ IDEA
• Debugging Java in Visual Studio Code
• Sun's Oracle's Java Documentation
• Oracle's "New to Java Programming" Center
• Java tutorials
• Java Coffee Break - Getting started
• The Java tag at Stack Overflow
• Memory usage in Java
• JVM Anatomy Quarks
• JVM Internals
• A JVM Does That? by Cliff Click
• JavaScript
• JavaScript is Good, Actually - Well... modern JavaScript is.
• A Re-introduction to JavaScript
• JavaScript Style Guides
• The jQuery JavaScript Style Guide
• Some JavaScript code conventions - from Doug Crockford
• More JavaScript code conventions - from many people, managed via Git
• JavaScript: The Good Parts - by Doug Crockford
• The JavaScript tag at Stack Overflow
• The JavaScript tag at Pro Webmasters Stack Exchange
• JavaScript Keyboard Events Madness
• Treant.js - a JavaScipt library for tree diagram visualizations
• Write Tetris in JavaScript
• HTML5
• Introduction to HTML
• Some Cool HTML 5 Features
• W3C HTML Validator
• Mozilla Canvas Tutorial
• HTML5 Web Storage Specification
• Dive into HTML5 Local Storage
• HTML 5 Local Storage Overview
• Introduction to HTML5 Web Storage
• The HTML tags at Stack Overflow
• The HTML5 and Database tags at Stack Overflow
• The HTML tag at Pro Webmasters Stack Exchange
• Git
• GitHub Desktop
• A Gentle Introduction to Git and GitHub from Alan
• Git from the Bottom up by John Wiegley
• Git Basics
• Try Github
• GitHub Guides
• Advanced: Git From the Inside Out
• Visualizing Git Concepts
• How to Write a Git Commit Message - pretty good advice
• The Issues Feature on GitHub
• Dangers of GitHub and Amazon
• Algorithms
• Algorithm Visualizations - VisuAlgo, from Dr. Steven Halim and some of his students from the National University of Singapore
• Visualizing Algorithms by Mike Bostock, creator of d3
• Sorting Algorithm Animations - Visual demos by David R. Martin
• The Sound of Sorting - Sorting Algorithm Audibilization and Visualization, by Timo Bingmann
• Data Structure Visualization Tool from David Galles
• Alan's Algorithms Course
• Software Development
• Software Engineering at Google a book by Abseil
• Ideas about Software Development - 6 years later
• Software Development Developments at Microsoft
• Exploding Software Engineering Myths - more from Microsoft Research
• A Microsoft Code Review - with Marist alum Jon Miller
• A big list of naughty strings - Great for testing
• Comments on Comments
• Great books about writing software
  • Code Complete by Steve McConnell
  • Beautiful Code by Andy Oram & Greg Wilson
  • Coders at Work by Peter Seibel

• History
• A Brief History of the Internet
• A Brief History of Web Browsers
• Zork and Infocom
• History of Zork
• Play ZORK online
• Play a bunch of Infocom Adventures online
• The Story of Infocom from MIT
• A Long History of Infocom from MIT
• Adventure Classic Gaming
• Writing Interactive Fiction
• Author Guide
• Author Guide Supplemental one
• Author Guide Supplemental two
• History of Interactive Fiction
• LAMP Links
• Brass Lantern
• GET LAMP - Before the first-person shooter, there was the second-person thinker.