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   * **Lectures**: EECS3311 | Mon./Wed. 4-5.30pm |Mon. LSB  106 | Wed. LSB  103
   * **Textbooks**: the following texts are highly recommended and are available on reserve in the Library:
-    * Bertrand Meyer, //Touch of Class: Learning how to Program Well, with Objects and Contracts//, Springer Verlag, revised printing, 2013, book page [[http://touch.ethz.ch/|here]] (this is a complete course with slides, videos and exercises). Available with online access via Steacie Library. The book describes computational thinking with the Eiffel language. Use this text to learn about **design by contract**, polymorphism, static typing, dynamic binding, genericity, multiple inheritance, and lambda expressions (agents). These are all topics needed for this course.
+    * Bertrand Meyer, //Touch of Class: Learning how to Program Well, with Objects and Contracts//, Springer Verlag, revised printing, 2013, book page [[http://touch.ethz.ch/|here]] (this is a complete course with slides, videos and exercises). The text //Touch of Class// is available with online access via Steacie Library. The book describes computational thinking with the Eiffel language. Use this text to learn about **design by contract**, polymorphism, static typing, dynamic binding, genericity, multiple inheritance, and lambda expressions (agents). These are all topics needed for this course.
     * Bertrand Meyer. //Object-Oriented Software Construction//. Second edition. Prentice Hall, 1997. This is a classic text on software design principles.
     * //Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software//, 1994, by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
-  * **Labs**: In addition to the assignments, Labtest, and project, each week you will be provided with an exercise to do. We have scheduled an informal 60 minute Lab in LAS1006 every Monday 5.30 - 6.30pm so that you can work in the Prism facility (think of this as office hours). Doing these exercises is an important step in developing your design skills. You can also do the Labs on your own time provided you submit them by the deadline. You can also ask questions in the forum or attend regular office hours.
+    * [[https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/project/eiffel/bon:|BON]] (Business Object Notation). The BON method for analysis and design of object-oriented software is a means of extending the higher-level concepts of the Eiffel programming language into the realm of analysis and design aided by a graphical notation akin to but different from UML. BON is described in depth in the book //Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture//, Prentice Hall 1994, by Kim Waldén and Jean-Marc Nerson.  The book is out of print but is available as a [[http://www.bon-method.com/book_print_a4.pdf|pdf]]. There is a template in Visio to do nice BON diagrams.
+  * **Informal Labs**: In addition to the assignments, Labtest, and project, you will also be provided with 5 Labs (provided one week in advance of the due date). We have scheduled an informal 60 minute session in LAS1006 every Monday 5.30 - 6.30pm, so that you can work in the Prism facility with a TA present to provide help. Doing these exercises is an important step in developing your design skills. You can, of course, also do the Labs on your own time provided you submit them by the deadline. You can also ask questions in the forum or attend regular office hours.
 ===== Getting Started =====
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   *See bottom** ↓** of this page for login with your Prism password. Slides are available from the SVN repository (see link in the sidebar, once you have logged on).
-  * Office hours: Wednesday 5.30-6.30pm in the SEL (CSE2056).
+  * Office hours: A TA will be available during the Lab hour (5.30pm to 6.30pm) on Mondays in LAS1006. Office hours Thursdays 5.30-6.30pm in the SEL (CSE2056). Ask all course information on the forum.
   * Get started using the Eiffelstudio IDE on the first day of class ([[https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/project/eiffel/getting_started:start|here]]). Compile and execute a hello world program. Then use the ESpec library to write and execute your first test. You might want to run through this [[http://tecomp.sourceforge.net/index.php?file=doc/lang/tutorial.txt|introductory tutorial]].
   *  Examples and useful slides from [[http://www.cse.yorku.ca/course_archive/2014-15/F/3311/|other instructors]] for this course.
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