Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

By the end of this class, you should be able to:

• Understand and use the vocabulary of modeling, object-oriented design and analysis, and simulation (including both discrete and continuous).
• Be able to analyze a real world situation, design a model in a language-independent fashion with multiple classes and connections between them, and implement the model in Smalltalk.
• Design using a graphical representation of a model.
• Design a user interface for a model and explain the design rationale.
• Use an object-oriented analysis and design notation which is language independent.
• Read and explain an object-oriented program written in C++ or Java.
• Be able to read and write C++ class structure definitions.
• Be able to write a simple O-O program in either C++ or Java.