Software architecture and distributed programs (SODP)

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Week	Dates	Topics	Readings	Exercises
35	25.08 - 29.08	Introduction to the course ReSharper Unit testing Exceptions	Watch the video on ReSharper MSDN Verifying Code by Using Unit Tests MSDN Unit Test Basics MSDN How to: Create a Unit Test Project MSDN Using Code Coverage to Determine How Much Code is being Tested extremeprogramming.org Code the Unit Test First Wikipedia Test Driven Development Unit testing (PowerPoint) Example: TryingUnitTesting Extra: Channel 9 Visual Studio Toolbox: JetBrains Resharper (video), 2011	Make sure you have a new version of Microsoft Visual Studio (version 2012 or 2013). Install ReSharper (a plug-in for Visual Studio). An installation key can be found in Fronter Unit Test Generator (a plug-in for Visual Studio) Unit testing, getting started (again) \| Solution
36	01.09 - 05.09	Exceptions (continued) Contract based programming Code Contracts Concurrency: Threads (getting started)	Buckys Room Try, Catch, and Finally (video) Buckys Room Throwing Exceptions (video) MSDN Exceptions and Exception Handling (C# Programming Guide) Exceptions (PowerPoint) Example: TryingUsing Example: LayeredLibrary Extra: Deitel: Visual C# 2012, chapter 13 Exception Handling: A Deeper Look Contract based programming (PowerPoint) Code contracts (PowerPoint) Example: Teacher with Object invariants, Pre- and Post-conditions	Parameter checking, test first \| Solution Boundary values testing \| Solution Library, with homemade exception \| Solution Code contracts: Book \| Solution Extra: Other unit testing frameworks Extra: LayeredLibrary needs more features
37	08.09 - 12.09	Concurrency: Threads Concurrency: Parallel architectures: Task + data parallelism (starting)	Buckys Room Threading pt. 1 (video) Joseph Albahari Threading in C#, part 1 Threads in C# (slides) Example: TryThread \| WriteToArray Joseph Albahari Threading in C#, part 2 Synchronization essentials Locking Synchronization: Threads + monitors (slides) Example: ThreadBank	First thread (again?) \| Solution Adding threads to an existing program \| Solution Producer-Consumer \| solution
38	15.09 - 19.09	Parallel architectures: Task + data parallelism (continue) Logging Trial exam	MSDN Task Parallel Library (TPL) Task Parallelism Data Parallelism Slides Examples (class Parallel): Gaston Hillar, Professional Parallel Programming with C#, chapter 2 Logging (slides) Example: EventLogExample Microsoft Support: How to write to an event log by using Visual C#	In the exercise Adding threads ... (Find Smallest) make sure you did the "Use Task with Result" part In the exercise Adding threads ... use Parallel.For(...) to start the tasks. In the exercise Adding threads ... use Parallel.ForEach(...) to start the tasks. In the Producer-Consumer exercise start Producer, Consumer etc. using Parallel.Invoke(...) Partitioner: Find smallest
39	22.09 - 19.09	Program documentation Profiling Thursday: No programming lessons	Buckys Room Comments and Descriptions (video). The interesting part it about the /// (triple slash) comments, starts around 2:30 Corey's Tutorial: How to Comment & Document Your Code (video) Program documentation (slides) Profiling slides MSDN Beginners Guide to Profiling	Add logging to one (or more) of your previous exercises like Producer-Consumer. Download and install Doxygen Document some of your previons projects and try to extract documentation using Doxygen
40	29.09 - 03.10	HTTP server	Program your own HTTP server. A very simple version (empty + test class) can be forked from GitHub https://github.com/RO133050dc3i/httpserver Your final group solution to the HTTP server must pushed to GitHub no later than Friday 3 October at 15:00.	HTTP server \| very simple solution
41	06.10 - 10.10	Data structures for concurrency Mid-term evaluation Tuesday + Friday: No programming lessons	Data structures for concurrency Blocking Collection Overview Slides Example: BlockingCollectionTrying	Producer-Consumer using BlockingCollection \| Solution
42	13.10 - 17.10	Autumn holidays all week
43	20.10 - 24.10	Architecture project	Buckys Room: MD5 and SHA1 (video) 4th semester electives: What do you want?	Distributed password cracking
44	27.10 - 31.10	Architecture project, continued	4th semester electives: What do you want?
45	03.11 - 07.11	Generics Interfaces Responsiveness: async + await Types in programming languages Friday: Presentation of password cracking results	Generics (slides) MSDN Generics (C# Programming Guide) Benefits of Generics Generic Type Parameters Constraints on Type Parameters Generic Classes Generic Interfaces Generic Methods Default Keyword Examples: GenericsUsing \| GenericConstraints Extra: Deitel: Visual C# 2012, Chapter 20 Generics Interfaces (slides) MSDN Interfaces (C# Programming Guide) Extra: Deitel: Visual C# 2012, chapter 28 Asynchronous Programming with async and await (web chapter) Example (interfaces): LayeredLibrary \| Producer-Consumer (IBuffer) Responsiveness: async + await MSDN Asynchronous Programming with Async and Await Slides Example simple \| Example browser Types in programming languages (slides) MSDN Types (C# Programming Guide) Examples: MethodOverriding Buckys Room Abstract (video) Buckys Room More on Inheritance and Interfaces (video) Buckys Room Overloading Methods and Enumerations (video)	Generic Producer-Consumer with BlockingCollection \| Solution Generic Catalog \| Solution Generic methods \| Solution
46	10.11 - 14.11	Collections: Algorithms and data structures	Collections (slides) Examples: CollectionsTrying MSDN Collections (C# and Visual Basic) QuickSort pseudo code + C# Wikipedia Divide and Conquer Algorithms Extra: Deitel: Visual C# 2012, chapter 21 Collections	Catalog implementations: List, Set, Dictionary \| Solution Unmodifiable collection \| Solution Copy constructor \| The solution above includes a copy constructor (IEnumerable<T> as a parameter) Comparing objects \| Solution MultiValueDictionary \| Solution Measure algorithms working time
47	17.11 - 21.11	Refererence types and value types: struct + enum Delegates Lambda expressions Events Trial exam	Value types and Reference types (slides) Example: StructVsClass MSDN Value Types and Reference Types MSDN Structs (C# Programming Guide) MSDN Enumeration Types (C# Programmig Guide) Buckys Room Structs (video) Delegates in C# (slides) Examples: DelegatesTrying \| ExtensibleCalculator \| CountDownTimer MSDN (C# Programming Guide) Using Delegates Delegates with Names vs. Anonymous Methods How to: Declare, Instantiate and Use a Delegate How to: Combine Delegates (Multicast Delegates) Buskys Room Delegates (video) Channel 9 How to use a delegate (video), 2009 Channel 9 Understanding Lambda Expressions (video) Understanding Predicates and Delegates in C#, 2010 Delegates, anonymous functions, and lambda expressions (slides) Example: lambdaEtc \| threadWithCallback Events in C# (slides) Examples: CountDownTimerEvent \| CountDownTimerEventArgs MSDN Events Tutorial	Catalog.GetAll: Delegate vs. single-method interface \| Solution MathGeneric.Min + Max with delegate \| Solution Extra: Map + Reduce, something like this Extra: Delegate Builder Clock event \| Solution
48	24.11 - 28.11	LINQ + Anonymous types Extension methods PLINQ Trial exam	LINQ (Slides) Examples: linqFirstTry \| LinqToSqlNorthwind \| LinqToXmlTrying MSDN Getting Started with LINQ Introduction to LINQ Queries (C#) LINQ and Generic Types (C#) Basic LINQ Query Operations (C#) Data Transformation with LINQ (C#) Type Relationships in LINQ Query Operations (C#) Query Syntax and Method Syntax in LINQ (C#) C# Features That Support LINQ Walkthrough: Writing Queries in C# (LINQ) Channel 9 C# 3.0 Part 2: The Power of LINQ (video), 2008 Inside LINQ to Objects (slides) Examples: TimingLinq \| ExtensionMethods \| PasswordCrackerLinq \|PlinqTrying MSDN Extension Methods (C# Programming Guide) DotNetPerls C# AsParallel MSDN Understanding Speedup in PLINQ Extra: Deitel: Visual C# 2012: Chapter 9, Introduction to LINQ and the List Collection	LINQ to Objects: School \| Solution Extension methods \| Solution Extra: LINQ Quiz Write you answer on paper before clicking Answer. For the last questions you will have to read more, than I told you ... Extra: Download and Install LINQPad LINQPad comes with a lot of examples to try.
49	01.12 - 06.12	Design patterns Trial exam	Design patterns (slides) Examples: SingletonComparer \| FactoryWebRequest \| FactoryGetOrCreate \| CompositeRestaurantMenu \| DecoratedCoffee \| DecoratedBook \| StrategyFindSmallest \| TemplateMethodFindSmallest TemplateMethodHotDrink \| TemplateMethodServer codeproject.com Design patterns Singleton Composite (find the section "Composite") Decorator Iterator Observer Strategy Template Method MSDN Implementing Singleton in C# MSDN Exploring the Observer Design Pattern MSDN Magazine Discover the Design Patterns You're Already Using in the .NET Framework (up to and including "Template Method Pattern") Observer design pattern (slides) Example: NotifyPropertyChangeSmallExample \| ObservableCollectionExample INotifyPropertyChanged Support in ReSharper (Youtube) Extra: Larman: Applying UML and Pattterns, chapter 26 Applying GoF Design Patterns	Singleton Library \| Solution Decorated Teacher: Immutable + thread safe decoration \| Solution Strategy Find Smallest: Add more strategies to the example Template Method Find Smallest: Add more sub classes to the example MultiValueDictionary: Strategy \| Solution MultiValueDictionary: Template Method \| Solution Teacher with NotifyPropertyXx \| Solution Composite plastic bag \| Solution
50	08.12 - 12.12	Refactoring More refactoring examples	Refactoring (slides) Examples: RefactoringExamples \| ioWithoutExceptions	No new exercises. You have already done some refactorings in previous exercises Adding Threads to an existing program Producer-Consumer MultiValueDictionary: Strategy + Template method
51	15.12 - 19.12	SOLID designDependency injection The Repository pattern Going through selected exercises Trial exam	SOLID design (slides) michas The S.O.L.I.D Object-Oriented Programming Principles Woo Building an application using design patterns and principles in C#, part 1 \| My starting point for the refactoring Hieatt & Mee Repository Example: LayeredLibrary (an old example) Some advices on the preparation for 3rd semester exams	Extra: Order System - Patterns Galore

52 - 1	22.12 - 02.01	Christmas + New year	Read the curriculums: Computer network + programming
january	Tuesday 13.01	Questions Ask Anders
january	14.01 - 16.01	Exams	Exam schedule
january	21.01 - 22.01	Re-exams
5	26.01		Monday: Next semester starts (I guess)