Nordic Informatics Network in the Agricultural Sciences

Object oriented modelling and software development with agricultural applications

Tune Landboskole, Greve, Denmark, August 13-24, 2006

Textbooks

The following textbooks are used (all participants will receive a copy of each):

• Barnes and Kölling: Objects First with Java. A practical introduction using BlueJ. Third edition. Prentice-Hall 2006.
• Dan Pilone and Neil Pitman: UML 2.0 in a Nutshell. O'Reilly 2005.

Handbooks

The following books (a few copies) will be available for reference at the course centre:

•  A. G. Kleppe, J. Warmer, and W. Bast, MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture: Practice and Promise. 2003.
• The Object Constraint Language: Getting Your Models Ready for MDA. 2003.
• P. Sestoft, Java Precisely, Second Edition, The MIT Press August 2005.

Supplementary materials

• Gerhard's slides
• Slides about databases
• Slides about project requirements
• BlueJ database project
• BlueJ rolldice project
• BlueJ maptest project
• BlueJ translator project
• BlueJ modified-dome-v3 project
• BlueJ forest-model project
• The UMLet UML drawing tool
• Exercises with solutions for Anneke Kleppe's lectures
• Run the MineSweeper applet
• BlueJ applettest project, containing the MineSweeper and MyApplet examples.

Author: phd@dina.kvl.dk. Updated: 09 august 2006