Previous Weeks in the CSci 340 class

Week 1: Monday, August 27

• Introduction

Reading: Chapters 1 - 2

Schedule:

• Monday: Introduction to the course
• Tuesday: Overview of the discipline
• Thursday: Computer Based Systems Analysis
• Friday: Software Life Cycle

Reading: Chapters 3 - 4

Schedule:

• Monday:
  • Labor Day - no classes
• Tuesday:
  • Introduction to the group project
• Thursday:
  • Software Process Models (Chapter 3)
• Friday:
  • Overview of the SWE process (Chapter 3)

Other Notes:

• Introduction

Reading: Chapters 4 - 6

Schedule:

• Monday:
  • Management Issues
  • Please have a preliminary project proposal to me today or tomorrow
• Tuesday:
  • Management Issues
  • Requirements engineering
• Thursday:
  • The Requirements Document
• Friday:
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Discussion of the term paper

Other Notes:

• Group work days will begin next week
• The first hour exam has been rescheduled to Thursday, Oct. 4

Week 4: Monday, Sept. 17

Reading: Chapters 6 - 7

Schedule:

• Monday:
  • Requirements Engineering
• Tuesday:
  • Requirements Engineering
• Thursday:
  • Requirements Engineering
• Friday:
  • Group Work Day (final touches on the project proposal, initial work on requirements document)
  • Informal Term Paper proposal due (email is OK)
  • Formal group project proposal will be due Monday

Other Notes:

Week 5: Monday, Sept. 24

Topics: Requirements

Reading: Chapters 6 - 7

Schedule:

• Monday
  • No class - instructor ill
• Tuesday
  • Student presentations of Chapter 5 problems
• Thursday
  • Student presentation
  • Entity-relationship models
  • Finite state automata
• Friday
  • State machine models

Week 6: Monday, Oct. 1

• System models
• Prototyping
• A (very) brief look at formal specification
• Introduction to design

Reading: Chapters 7 - 9

Schedule:

• Monday:
  • No class - bomb threat
• Tuesday:
  • Group work day
• Thursday:
  • Exam 1
• Friday:
  • Prototyping
  • Discussion of formal methods
  • Term paper thesis statement due

Other Notes:

•  The current exercise will be due on Monday
•  The requrements document will be due on Friday, Oct. 12

Week 7: Monday, Oct. 8

Reading: Chapters 10 - 11

Schedule:

• Monday:
  • Formal Specification
  • More on system models
• Tuesday:
  • Architectural design
• Thursday:
  • Return and discussion of exam #1
• Friday:
  • Group Work Day
  • Preliminary Requirements Document due Tuesday.
  • Completed requirements document due next  Friday

Other Notes:

•  Friday is midterm (not an exam date)

Week 8: Monday, Oct. 15

Reading: Chapters 10 - 12

Schedule:

• Monday:
  • Fall Break Day (no classes)
• Tuesday:
  • Architectural design
  • Preliminary Requirements Document Due
• Thursday:
  • Architectural design
  • Distributed architectures
• Friday:
  • Distributed architectures
  • Complete Requirements Document Due

Week 9: Monday, Oct. 22

Reading: Chapters 12-15, skipping chapter 13

Schedule:

• Monday:
  • Object-oriented design (in-class exercise Monday or Tuesday)
• Tuesday:
  • Reuse
• Thursday:
  • Object Oriented Design
• Friday:
  • Group Work Day

Other Notes:

• Fridays will be group work days from now on.

Week 10: Monday, Oct. 29

Reading: Chapters 12-15, skipping chapter 13

Schedule:

• Monday:
  • Object-oriented design
• Tuesday:
  • In-class design exercise
• Thursday:
  • Reuse
• Friday:
  • Group Work Day
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Other Notes:

• The second hour exam will be next Thursday
• The Design Document will be due two weeks from Monday (Monday, Nov. 12, not  next Friday as originally scheduled)

Week 11: Monday, Nov. 5

Reading: Chapters 15, 19 - 20 (skipping material on critical systems)

Schedule:

• Monday:
  • User Interfaces
  • Reliability
• Tuesday:
  • Testing
• Thursday:
  • Second Hour Exam
• Friday:
  • Group Work Day
  • Design Document due this coming Monday (not this Friday)

Other Notes:

• Starting next week, Mondays and Fridays will be group work days.
• The Design Document will be due  Monday, Nov. 12, not  this Friday as originally scheduled)

Week 12: Monday, Nov. 12

Reading: Chapter 15

Schedule:

• Monday:
• Group Work Day
• Design Document due
• Tuesday:
  • Student Presentations:  Object Oriented Design Exercise
• Thursday:
  • Student Presentations:  Object Oriented Design Exercise
  • User Interfaces 
• Friday:
  • Group Work Day
  • The term paper draft will be due Monday instead of today.

Other Notes:

• Next week is Thanksgiving.  We will meet on Monday, and use Tuesday as a group work day
• Term paper draft will be due Monday, Nov. 19, instead of Friday, Nov. 16.

Week 13: Monday, Nov. 19

Reading: Chapters 19 - 20 (skipping material on critical systems)

Schedule:

• Monday:
  • Software Testing
  • Verification and Validation
  • Term paper draft due
• Tuesday:
  • Group Work Day
• Thursday:
  • Thanksgiving Break (no classes or office hours)
• Friday:
• Thanksgiving Break (no classes or office hours)

Other Notes: