Topics

• Discuss syllabus, schedule, and status reports.
• Project ideas.
• How to plan a project.

• Planning your project.

• ASSIGNED: Status reports.
• ASSIGNED: Background research and supporting documentation.

• Defining project goals and the point of the project.
• Writing project proposals.
• Elevator pitch.
  

• Nailing down the feature set.
• Good style in writing for computer science.

• ASSIGNED: Project proposal.
• ACM references and citation format.
  

• Discussion of project ideas.

• DUE on 9/8 @ 11:59pm: Background research.

• Peer review project proposals.

• DUE on 9/11 @ 11:59pm: Draft project proposal.

• What is software engineering?
  
• Software lifecycle.
  

• Who are the users.
• Use cases.
• UML.

• SRS template

• DUE: Final project proposal.
• ASSIGNED: Project requirements.
  

• Peer review use cases.

• DUE: Names of use cases.
  

• The anatomy of a use case.
  

• Development environment + coding standards.
• Discuss project specification.

• Making Wrong Code Look Wrong
• Hungarian Notation
  

• DUE: Project requirements.
• ASSIGNED: Development environment and coding standards.
• ASSIGNED: Project specification.

• Peer review project diagrams.

• ASSIGNED: Project schedule.
• DUE: Project diagram.
  

• Discuss project schedule and estimation.

• Evidence Based Scheduling.
• Specification Exercise.
  

• DUE: Development environment + coding standards.
• DUE: Projec specification.
• ASSIGNED: Project proposal presentations.
• ASSIGNED: Project prototype.

• Review schedules.
  
• How to present a project.
• Discuss project prototypes.

• Chapter 14 in Writing for Computer Science by Zobel.

• DUE: Project schedule.

• Alex
• Jesse
  

• Thomas

• Discuss topic leads.
• Discuss prototype descriptions.
  

• DUE: Prototype description.
• ASSIGNED: Topic leads.

• Discuss design reviews.
• Discuss prototype descriptions.
  

• DUE: articles for 10/28 topic.
• ASSIGNED: Schedule change request form.
• ASSIGNED: Design Reviews.
• ASSIGNED: Module designs.
• ASSIGNED: Module implementations.
  

• Topic lead: Jesse

• Demonstration of prototypes.

• DUE: Prototypes.

• Design review: Thomas

• DUE: articles for 11/7 discussions.

• Topic lead: Alex

• Class cancelled as Shereen is at Grace Hopper Conference.
  

• Design review: Jesse

• DUE: articles for 11/18 discussions.

• Topic lead: Thomas

• Design review: Alex

• Design patterns.