PAFSD got off to a good start 2 weeks ago - numbers at Portsmouth are a nice size for a final year option but still not the 20+ the department prefers and I've yet to hear the numbers at St Patricks.
Here in Portsmouth we spent the first lecture looking at what the unit would be about and then I gave a lecture introducing the patterns and their history.
Last week, in the first half of the lecture, we did an exercise on using a pattern catalogue which give students an opportunity to look at Alexander's pattern catalogue and to consider how you might pick patterns for a project. I hope to do this exercise with the St Patrick's students tomorrow morning.
In the second half of the lecture we looked at two software patterns: Template Method and Memento. I then asked the students to look at Strategy and Factory Method for next week plus do some reading from Gabriel's book:
Gabriel, R.P., (1996) Patterns of software: Tales from the software community, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0195121236 - also available to download from Richard Gabriel's web site Dreamsongs
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