CS 493 Course Information

The goal of this course is to help you get a good start on your project and to become a responsible,productive software programmer. The purpose of this course is to complete the design of your senior project and to begin implementing it. There are six main phases to completing your project:

1. Requirements analysis
2. High level design
3. Implementation
4. Testing
5. Analysis of results
6. Final report

During this semester you will complete steps 1 and 2 and start on step3. Next semester you will complete the remaining steps.

Schedule:

	Date	Topics	Homework & Assignments	Notes
Week 1	Aug 26	What is a senior project? What ideas do you have for a project? How do you come up with a project?		Scrum Master: Shereen The New Methodology Planning your Project
	Aug 28	Continue discussing project ideas	DUE: daily stand-up OUT: project proposal	References format Writing for Computer Science
Week 2	Sep 2	Defining project goals and the point of the project Writing project proposals Elevator pitch	DUE: daily stand-up	Developing your project proposal
	Sep 4	Software development process and planning:agile, scrum, sprint, stand-up, epic, user story, scrum master Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning	DUE: daily stand-up DUE: first draft of project proposal
Week 3	Sep 9	Introduction to ScrumDo	DUE: daily stand-up	Scrum Master: Shereen
	Sep 11	Individual meetings	DUE: daily stand-up DUE: final project proposal
Week 4	Sep 16	User stories and acceptance criteria Project proposal peer review	DUE: daily stand-up	User Stories
	Sep 18	Acceptance Criteria	DUE: daily stand-up DUE: backlog contains	Acceptance Criteria
Week 5	Sep 23	Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning	DUE: daily stand-up DUE: All user stories have acceptance criteria	Scrum Master: Troy
	Sep 25	Epics	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 6	Sep 30	Estimation	DUE: daily stand-up DUE: Add epics to the backlog
	Oct 2		DUE: daily stand-up
Week 7	Oct 7	Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning	DUE: daily stand-up	Scrum Master: Ben
	Oct 9	Topic Lead: Ryan, Kai	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 8	Oct 14	12 steps to better code Bug tracking in agile	DUE: daily stand-up
	Oct 16	Topic Lead: Ben, Josh	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 9	Oct 21	Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning	DUE: daily stand-up	Scrum Master: Josh
	Oct 23	Class cancelled because of workshop at Nike	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 10	Oct 28	Introduction to refactoring	DUE: daily stand-up
	Oct 30	Topic Lead: Troy	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 11	Nov 4	Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning	DUE: daily stand-up	Scrum Master: Kai
	Nov 6	Refactoring Ben's code	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 12	Nov 11	Refactoring video rental example: Customer.java Main.java Movie.java Rental.java	DUE: daily stand-up
	Nov 13	Unconscious bias 1 - Complete at least one test (preferably 2) from Project Implicit. Be prepared to describe the test that you took. 2 - What are examples of unconscious bias 3 - Are all biases bad? Can you give an example of a good bias? 4 - How important are structured interviews vs. finding the best 'fit'? 5 - What one action will you take to try to overcome unconscious bias? 6 - What is micro aggression? Research an example that is different than the one given in the video. 7 - What is stereotype threat? How does it affect the hiring into technology jobs?	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 13	Nov 18	Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning	DUE: daily stand-up	Scrum Master: Ryan
	Nov 20	Practice presentations: Troy, Kai	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 14	Nov 25	Practice presentations: Ben, Josh, Ryan	DUE: daily stand-up Assigned: Final Report
	Nov 27	No Class - Thanksgiving
Week 15	Dec 2	Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning	DUE: daily stand-up
	Dec 4	12pm - Final Presentations	DUE: Final Report