Nygaard and Dahl invented Simula’s classes and objects to master complex problems. Alan Kay invented object orientation (OO) with its networks of communicating objects to facilitate simple and powerful mental models. His goal was to make computers and programming comprehensible to children of all ages. Mainstream programmers missed the importance …
This video introduces a series of things that will make you a better object oriented programmer and gives you explanations on the thought processes behind the ideas. http://oredev.org/2010/sessions/19-1-2-things-to-make-you-a-better-object-oriented-programmer
We design our code for performance, maintenance, simplicity, extensibility and other goals, but most of us do not think about testability as a design goal, yet verifying the correctness of our code is of great importance. What does it mean to have testable code, and what kind of trade offs …
Most Ruby programmers have a mental model of how Ruby manages objects and classes. But the chances are good that this model is more complicated that it should be. Come and see how simple Ruby really is; a couple of simple concepts cover all you need to know. Once you …
Fundamental dynamic data structures, including linear lists, queues, trees, and other linked structures; arrays strings, and hash tables. Storage management. Elementary principles of software engineering. Abstract data types. Algorithms for sorting and searching. Introduction to the Java programming language.
Story Driven Modeling (SDM) is a systematic software development approach based on scencario analysis on model level. Usual text book approaches start with the derivation of a domain level class diagram from textual requirements specifications. This does not work. Class diagrams structure programs not your domain. Thus SDM proposes to …
