CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2011/Table of Contents

Ch1 Introduction

1.1 IDE and Ruby

• 1.1.1 What is an IDE? What is Ruby?
• 1.1.2 Comparison between different IDE

1.2 Collections Framework

• 1.2.1 What is a collections framework?
• 1.2.2 STL VS JCF

1.3 Methods vs Closures

• 1.3.1 Methods
• 1.3.2 Closures
• 1.3.3 Significance of Closures
• 1.3.4 Comparisons Between Closures and Methods

1.4 Implementation of Closures

• 1.4.1 Closures in Dynamically Typed Languages
• 1.4.2 Closures in Statically Typed Languages
• 1.4.3 Closures and Static Scoping

1.5 Block-Structured Programming vs Object-Oriented Programming

• 1.5.1 What is a Block-Structured Programming?
• 1.5.2 What is Object-Oriented Programming?
• 1.5.3 Transition to Object Oriented language
• 1.5.4 Comparison Between Block Structure and Object Oriented Language
• 1.5.5 Block-structure in Object-Oriented Programming

1.6 Version Control Systems: The Programmer View

• 1.6.1 Local Version Control
• 1.6.2 Centralized Version Control
• 1.6.3 Distributed Version Control
• 1.6.4 Comparison in a Nutshell