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Design Patterns: Pedagogical Foundations for Object-Orientation

Dung "Zung" Nguyen, Rice University

Stephen Wong, Oberlin College

Schedule:

1. (8:30 AM - 9:00 AM) Registration

2. (9:00 AM - 9:15 AM) Introductions

3. (9:15 AM - 10:30 AM) Session 1 : BallWorld OOP Demo 

   1. Animation: MVC and Observer-Observable patterns
   2. Composition vs. Inheritance: Strategy pattern
   3. Dynamically composable behavior
        

4. Break

5. (10:45 AM - 12:00 PM) Session 2 : Data Structures

   1. Lisp/Scheme lists:  Composite pattern
   2. Factory pattern 
      

6. Lunch

7. (1:00 PM - 2:15 P) Session 3 : Decoupling Algorithms from Data Structures

   1. Algorithms and Visitor pattern
   2. Mutable Recursive Structure and State pattern
   3. Sorting and Template Method pattern
        

8. Break

9. (2:30 PM - 3:30 PM) Session 4 : Putting it all together

   1. Fractal Curve Koch curve generation
   1. Recursive Algorithms
   2. Factories
   2. Fractal Koch Snowflake generation
       

10. (3:30 PM - 4:15 PM) Small Group Sessions

    1. Design Patterns Discussion  (room CCC 323)
    2. Web Tech.in CS Curric.  (room CCC 310)
    3. Language Choices in CS1/2 (room CCC 320)
         

11. (4:15 PM - 4:30 PM) Wrap-up
    
    

Please visit these sites:

•  Stephen Wong's home page
•  Stephen Wong's main web server 
•  Oberlin College CS Program's home page
•  Rice University CS Dept. home page