A Laboratory for Object-Oriented Software Development

9350708爱泼斯坦本科生计算机科学课程的目标是为学生提供高质量的职业前培训，这些学生中的大多数将成为计算机从业者。本科课程有了改进，强调了软件开发的以下几个方面：高抽象水平的严格思维、形式规范和设计技术、使用最先进的软件开发工具以及协作工作。从Pascal体现的过程性(或命令性)语言范型向C++和Common Lisp(带有CLO)体现的面向对象的范型迁移，鼓励实现这些目标中的许多。该项目旨在建立一个支持这些课程改革的本科生实验室。这个本科实验室使学生能够使用运行在Unix平台上的面向对象的编程环境。这些环境(特别是用于C++的对象中心、用于CLOS的Allegro Composer和用于面向对象数据库的对象存储)使学生能够利用在行业中变得常见的那种可视化软件工程环境。这样的环境对于面向对象的系统开发尤其重要，在面向对象的系统开发中，开发人员面临着大量相关类和交互对象的巨大复杂性。该项目还鼓励使用现代电信来支持学生之间的合作工作，学生和教职员工之间的电子互动，以及学生通过新闻组进入更大的智力社区。

9350708 Epstein The aim of the undergraduate computer science curriculum is to provide quality, pre-professional training for students, most of whom will become practitioners of computing. Improvements have been made in the undergraduate curriculum that emphasize the following aspects of software development: rigorous thinking at a high level of abstraction, formal specifications and design techniques, use of state-of-the-art software development tools, and cooperative work. Many of these objectives are encouraged by migration away from the procedural (or imperative) language paradigm embodied by Pascal towards the object-oriented paradigm embodied in C++ and Common Lisp (with CLOS). This project aims to establish an undergraduate laboratory that supports these curriculum changes. This undergraduate laboratory enables students to use object-- oriented programming environments running on the UNIX platform. These environments (specifically, ObjectCenter for C++, Allegro Composer for CLOS and ObjectStore for object-oriented data- bases) enable students to utilize the sort of visual software engineering environments that are becoming commonplace in industry. Such environments are especially important for object-oriented systems development where developers are confronted with the enormous complexity of large numbers of related classes and interacting objects. This project also encourages the use of modern telecommunications to support cooperative work among students, electronic interaction between students and faculty, and student access to the larger intellectual community over newsgroups.