Week

Date

Topics

Reading

Assignments

Lab

1

1/9

Class overview;

What is design?

Agent Intro;

Agent architecture;

Interaction Diagram;

Multi-Threading;

Class readings from: CSCI201Curriculum.htm

AgentRoadmap.htm

Prior To Class:

 Curriculum: Sec. 1 and 2

 Roadmap: Sec. 1 and 2

In Class:
TBD

lab1guide.pdf

gettingStarted.html

UnixAndEmacsBasics.html

V3WithAnimationC++.zip

V3AgentsWithFSM.zip

v3InteractionDiagram.htm

Explore old v1.0 (Optional)
agentsV1.zip;

Agent Design;

v3.0 requirements

Prior To Class:

  Roadmap: Sec. 3, 4.1, 4.2

In Class:
Do v3.0 Interaction Diagram;

Design cook

2

1/16

MLK Holiday

[No Class]

Explore the restaurant agents

lab2guide.pdf

lab2guideAnswers.pdf

Base Class Agent review;

Anonymous Inner Class;

Agent control: fsm or more complex;

Prior To Class:

  Roadmap: Sec. 5, 4.3

  Read about semaphores, acquire() and release()

    in Semaphore API

In Class: Review Waiter

3

1/23

Scheduler Semantics

v4.1 requirements

Prior To Class:

  SchedulerSemantics.pdf

  v4.1 requirements

In Class:
4.1 issues;

Scheduler semantics.

Design v4:

lab3guide.pdf

Agent Design Issues;

Agent Messaging

Roadmap: Sec. 6;

Roadmap: Sec. 2.1

v4.1 Design Document Due Sun. 1/29

4

1/30

v4.1 Design Questions

Concurrency and v4.1 coding:

lab4guide.pdf

Threading Example (Bank)

Concurrency;

Address Spaces; Threading; Data Sharing:

Semaphores, Monitors;

Agent Synchronizing; Sophisticated semaphore usage;

Curriculum: Sec. 4 ProducerConsumer Monitor, ProducerConsumer Application, Another App. With Multiple Producers and Consumers

 ReaderWriter.pdf

5

2/6

Unit Testing & Junit;

Unit Testing Agents; Mock Agents; Refactoring: Typing;

Read this paper first:

Junit Introduction

Then: Roadmap: Sec. 8

 v4.1 coding

Unit Testing Example;

v4.2 details:

  Multi-Step Actions;

  Sharing data;

Read Sean Turner's code:

   One Customer Test

   Two customers tests

 v4.2 requirements

Roadmap: Sec. 9.1

v4.1 Due Sunday 2/12

6

2/13

Midterm Preparation

Unit Testing:

lab5guide.pdf

LabforSettingupUnitTesting.pdf

V4.2 coding;

lab6guide.pdf

Midterm

7

2/20

President's Day

V4.2 coding;

Midterm Postmortem

v4.2 due Mon 2/26.

8

2/27

Factory Kickoff;

Discussion of Factory; Subversion, tools

Intro-to-version-control SubversionGuidelines.htm
SubversionPresentation

 The Factory Project

GlassLineLab.pdf

Group Ethics

Prior To Class:

  Curriculum: Sec. 3.3

9

3/5

Discussion of v0

Factory lab

Data Modeling;

Mediator Pattern

 Curriculum: Sec. 9

v0 design due Sun. 3/18

 3/12 through 3/16  Spring Break

10

3/19

Review of v0 including
unit testing v0

Factory lab on unit testing v0

More on Data Modeling for data bases;
More on Patterns;

v.0 due

Sun 3/25

11

3/26

Review of v1

Factory lab

Midterm

12

4/2

Midterm postmortem

Factory lab

Unit testing semaphores

 v.1 due

Sun. 4/8

13

4/9

Non-normative cases;

Making a presentation;

 Factory lab

14

4/16

 Project Status

 Factory lab

 v.2 due.

Sun. 4/22

15

4/23

 Presentations

 NO LAB

 Presentations

  Final Exam:  None