readme

This is the online material for Principles of Object-Oriented Software Development.

for any chapter -- choose either 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7, etctera
there are PDF versions for chapters 8 9 and 10 as for the individual sections of these chapters
for (digital) resources -- choose resources
for printing directives -- choose print
for an explanation of the slide format -- choose slides
and for the rest -- make your own choice

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copyright

This material is copyrighted. You may not copy or print any of this material without explicit permission of the author or the publisher.

formats

The notes are available

in PDF format
online in HTML
as slides in both dynamic HTML and VRML

slides

Slides are segments or slices of the text that may be displayed independently, or in sequence, with enlarged font.

Slides are available both in dynamic HTML/javascript presentation format, as well as in a home-grown VRML format.

PDF (reading and printing)

Go to the index. and click on PDF.

A PDF reader must be installed on your system. Such a reader can be freely obtained at www.adobe.com.

Alternatively, click on the sign at the top right for a PDF version of that particular chapter or section.

online version

Click on [], in the topleft of the navigation area, for a contents listing.

presentation

Click on the at the index page,or any of the other pages, for a dynamic HTML version of the slides.

See DejaVU Online (Readers Guide) for an explanation of the navigation options. The principle is simple, click on the right yellow sidebar, until the presentation is finished.

For a VRML version, click on the sign. These links require the blaxxun Contact 3D plugin. Hit the spacebar to advance in the sequence. The backspace takes you one back.

trails

This document may contain trails.

Qualified trails are indicated with, for example, C: < % ^ >. In this case it concerns a concepts trail.

The signs indicate respectively:

< -- back, to the previous segment
% -- (toggle) to slide-mode in text, to text in slide-mode
^ -- up (to the beginning of a chapter or section)
> -- to the next segment

The CDROM contains the full online version of the course notes. Open the file index.html in Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer, and click on readme for an explanation or introduction multimedia to access the material.

The online version provides you with both an HTML-based presentation format, as well as a VRML-based format, for presenting the lectures in class. The blaxxun Contact 3D VRML browser you need for this may be freely obtained from www.blaxxun.com.