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 step 3. Next semester you will complete the remaining steps.

Schedule:

	Date	Topics	Homework & Assignments	Notes and Reading
Week 1	Sep 1	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
	Sep 3	Project topics	OUT: Background research	Writing for Computer Science References Developing your project proposal
Week 2	Sep 8	Elevator pitch	DUE: Investments DUE: background research
	Sep 10	Finalizing the projects Defining project goals and the point of the project Writing project proposals	OUT: Project Proposal	Computer Science Writing Style Usability Goals
Week 3	Sep 15			Scrum Master: Shereen
	Sep 17	Introduction to scrum software Software engineering methodologies Software development process and planning:agile, scrum, sprint, stand-up, epic, user story, scrum master Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning	DUE: draft project proposal
Week 4	Sep 22	Introduction to ScrumDesk Project proposal feedback
	Sep 24	User stories and acceptance criteria Acceptance Criteria	DUE: daily stand-up	User Stories Acceptance Criteria
Week 5	Sep 29	Sprint Planning: - Assign stories to sprints - Assign tasks to the stories for this sprint - Assign users to tasks	DUE: project proposal DUE: All user stories have acceptance criteria	Scrum Master: Nicole & Evan
	Oct 1	Size stories Set up software in lab	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 6	Oct 6	Sprint burndown charts	DUE: daily stand-up
	Oct 8	Topic Lead: Shereen	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 7	Oct 13	Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning	DUE: daily stand-up DUE: Add epics to the backlog	Scrum Master:
	Oct 15	Topic Lead: Abby, Kelsey	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 8	Oct 20	Refactoring	DUE: daily stand-up
	Oct 22	Topic Lead: Lauren, Kevin Jian	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 9	Oct 27	Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning	DUE: daily stand-up	Scrum Master:
	Oct 29	Topic Lead: Bri, Jacob	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 10	Nov 3	Refactoring Exercise	DUE: daily stand-up
	Nov 5	Topic Lead: Alex, Nicole	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 11	Nov 10	Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning	DUE: daily stand-up	Scrum Master:
	Nov 12	Topic Lead: Evan, Kevin Jo	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 12	Nov 17	Programming Interviews	DUE: daily stand-up
	Nov 19	Discussion on presentations and final report One-on-one meetings	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 13	Nov 24	Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning	DUE: daily stand-up	Scrum Master:
	Nov 26	No Class - Thanksgiving
Week 14	Dec 1	Practice presentations:	DUE: daily stand-up
	Dec 3	Practice presentations	DUE: daily stand-up
Week 15	Dec 8	Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning	DUE: daily stand-up
	Dec 9	12pm - Final Presentations	DUE: Final Report