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Tuesday |
Thursday |
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1
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Jan 10
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Lecture 1: Introduction and setup
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- Course overview, administration, set up
- Projects and team work
- Introduction to software engineering
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Jan 12
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Lecture 2: Project 1 application specification
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- Customer requests, goals, requirements
- Discussion of features, options, considerations
- Technical advise on data structure organization
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2
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Jan 17
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Team meetings
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- Software specification
- Software partitioning
- Software documentation
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Jan 19
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Lecture 3: Software development process, version control
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- Linux software development tools
- Source code management, version trees
- Version control, Concurrent Versions System (CVS)
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3
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Jan 24
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Lecture 4: Graphical User Interface (GUI)
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- Introduction to GUI programming
- Portable graphics library SDL
- SDL introduction, API, demo
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Jan 26
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Team meetings
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- Software development and documentation
- Implementation of alpha version
- Testing, debugging, packaging
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4
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Jan 31
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Lecture 5: Team presentations
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- Project status and discussion
- Software specification for users and developers
- Data structure design, implementation, status
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Feb 2
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Lecture 6: Team presentations
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- Project status and discussion
- Software specification for users and developers
- Data structure design, implementation, status
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5
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Feb 7
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Midterm Exam and Competition
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- Oral exam: individual contribution to Project 1, Q+A
- Team competition: Chess tournament!
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Feb 9
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Break
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- Wrap up Project 1
- Peer and course evaluation
- Collect data from team accounts
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6
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Feb 14
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Lecture 7: Project 2 application specification
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- Customer requests, goals and requirements
- Discussion of features, options, considerations
- Technical advise on project partitioning
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Feb 16
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Lecture 8: Project 2 technical discussion
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- Application components, communication
- Technical advise on approach and algorithm
- Technical advise on client/server networking
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7
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Feb 21
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Lecture 9: Project 2 technical discussion
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- Software specification, requirements
- Technical advise on approach and algorithm
- Technical advise on networked communication
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Feb 23
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Lecture 10: Project 2 technical discussion
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- Software specification, requirements
- Technical advise on GUI programming
- Crash course into GTK+ programming
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8
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Feb 28
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Lecture 11: Project updates, Intro to C++ concepts
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- Project specification and discussion
- Technical advise on protocols and algorithm
- Introduction to C++ concepts,
classes and objects
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Mar 2
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Team meetings
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- Software development and documentation
- Implementation of alpha release
- Testing, debugging, packaging
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9
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Mar 7
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Lecture 12: Outlook towards C++
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- C++ classes, a deeper look
(1),
(2)
- Members, methods, constructors, destructors
- Function overloading, default arguments
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Mar 9
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Team meetings
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- Software development and documentation
- Implementation of beta release
- Optimization, testing, debugging, packaging
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10
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Mar 14
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Lecture 13: Team presentations
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- Project status and discussion
- Software presentation for users and developers
- Approach, implementation, demonstration
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Mar 16
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Lecture 14: Team presentations
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- Project status and discussion
- Software presentation for users and developers
- Approach, implementation, demonstration
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Final
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Mar 23
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Final Exam
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8:00am - 5:00pm in MDE, ET 201
Refer to Lecture 14 for details
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