Object Oriented Design Programming

AY2020/2021 Semester 2

The object-oriented paradigm to the design of software is one major successful approach to address complexity and maintainability issues in software systems. We want students to establish an object-oriented mindset and to gain valuable insights into how software can be developed using the object-oriented approach. This course should not be interpreted to be a pure programming language course. Rather, the programming language serves to illustrate, via practical examples, the concepts learnt in the course. As a student of this course, you will learn essential object-oriented concepts such as encapsulation, the separation of design from implementation; the use of inheritance and polymorphism. You will discover how to describe these concepts using appropriate UML diagrams. Finally, you will also learn good design principles for reuse, and to realise these principles using object-oriented programming languages such as Java and/or C++.