Application Development

Goal: develop a decent sized software product with documentation

• the program has to have a GUI
• the program has to follow the object oriented paradigm
• you should expect to work on it at least two hours a week

The task: what sort of task should you choose?

• simulation
• educational
• image processing/editing
• games (strategy, action, board games etc.)
• … or anything that you like, and I approve

Grading

• 3 presentations during the semester
• along with each presentation, you have to make a short documentation
  • the documentation goes into more details than the presentations

The presentations

• presentation 1
  • determine the goal of the project
  • define the most important concepts related to the project
  • list functional requirements
  • use cases: UML diagrams + description
• presentation 2
  • screen mockups
  • list nonfunctional requirements
  • UML class diagrams + description
• presentation 3: last week
  • sequence diagrams + description
  • final class diagrams + description
  • testing
  • fully functional program

The tools

• a language environment and a GUI framework, e.g. the Java Development Kit with Swing
• a recent IDE: NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ Idea etc.
• a Computer Aided Software Engineering tool
  • recommended
    • Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
    • Visual Paradigm
  • many other tools are listed on this page and on this page