Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives At the completion of this subject students should know and understand the object-oriented paradigm; know how the object-oriented paradigm supports re-use; and be able to develop and implement a commercially oriented object-oriented system using an object-oriented language.
Synopsis Principles of abstraction: classification, aggregation, generalisation and association. Object-oriented concepts including classes and objects, encapsulation. Approaches to object-oriented analysis: definition of classes, attributes and methods, identification of associations, aggregations, and generalisations. Steps involved in creating a design model from the analysis model. principles of object-oriented design: class responsibilities and relationships. Basic elements of Eiffel programming including its support for polymorphism, inheritance, multiple inheritance, deferred classes, static and dynamic binding, static typing. Generic data types. Implementation of object-oriented systems.
Assessment Examination (2 hours): 50% + Practical work: 50%