CS 245 Course Materials
Fall 2010

General

• CS 245 final scheduled for Dec. 16, 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm, in HS 149.
• Syllabus: PDF, HTML.
• Project Schedule: PDF, HTML.
• Click here to access the class projects. These are only available on the campus intranet. To access them from off-campus visit here and follow the instructions for setting up a VPN connection.
• Fall 2008 course materials.
• Eclipse, a powerful Java IDE. We're currently using the Europa release.
• Sun's Java JRE. What you want to download is Java Runtime Environment 5.0.
• Java 2 Packages and Classes Reference.
• Java Developer's Reference.
• Trac documentation.
• Subversion resources:
  • Subversion book PDF, HTML.
  • Subclipse, a Subversion plug-in for Eclipse. Subclipse documentation is built into Eclipse, once you've installed Subclipse. Online Subclipse documentation is available here.
  • TortoiseSVN, a Subversion client for Windows. Use this version to access the Subversion repository on phoneix. Documentation for TortoiseSVN.
• JUDE resources:
  • JUDE home. Documentation.
  • Download JUDE Community: Windows installer, ZIP file for Linux, etc. (See instructor for password.)
  • Basic Operations Guide. (See instructor for password.)
  • Reference Manual. (See instructor for password.)
• UML resources:
  • A Quick Guide to the Unified Modeling Language. A good quick guide.
  • A Beginner's Guide to the Unified Modeling Language. A good beginner's guide.
  • Practical UML: A Hands-On Introduction for Developers. This tutorial provides a quick introduction to UML.
  • Introduction to UML. A longer introduction with more detail. Page 27 contains some very useful tips; to paraphrase, don't get carried away with drawing tools and UML notation, the customer is going to prefer good software over beautiful diagrams every time.
• Linux References:
  • Linux Quick Reference from O'Reilly.
  • The One Page Linux Manual.
  • UNIX/Linux Tutorial.
  • Linux Tutorial.

Online Essay

Reading Assignments

• Week 1: Sept. 1: Read The Mythical Man-Month. Sept. 3: Chapter 1; online essay.
• Week 2: Sept. 8: Re-read 1.7--1.10; online essay. Sept. 10: Chapter 2; online essay.
• Week 3: Sept. 13: 3.4--3.10. Sept. 15: 3.1--3.3, 3.11, 3.12. Online essay. Sept. 17: No reading. No online essay.
• Week 4: Sept. 20: Read pp. 1--29 of the JUDE Basic Operations Guide. No online essay. Sept. 22: Read Chs. 1--2 of Subversion book. No online essay. Sept. 24: No reading. No online essay.
• Week 5: Sept. 27: No reading. No online essay. Sept. 29: No reading. No online essay. Oct. 1: No reading. No online essay.
• Week 6: Oct. 4: No reading. No online essay. Oct. 6: No reading. No online essay. Oct. 8: Chapter 4; online essay.
• Week 9: Oct. 27: Chapter 10; online essay.

Assignments

Oct. 29: Personal assessment: one page on strengths, one page on weaknesses, one page on increasing strengths and/or mitigating weaknesses.

Project Materials

• Software Requirements Specification
  • Galaxy Sleuth Narrative Description (password required).
  • Software Requirements Specifications Standards (password required).
  • Software Requirements Specification Example (password required).
• Clue Rules.

Presentations Schedule

• Nov. 17: Ari, software disasters --- FBI Virtual Case File; Julian, agile programming.
• Nov. 19: Jessica, software reliability estimation; Roz, human factors.
• Nov. 22: Owen, reverse engineering; Tim, reuse of software components.

Meeting Outlines

• Week 1: Sept. 1 PDF, HTML. Sept. 3 PDF, HTML.
• Week 2: Sept. 8 PDF, HTML. Sept. 10 PDF, HTML.
• Week 3: Sept. 13 PDF, HTML. Sept. 15 PDF, HTML. Sept. 17 PDF, HTML.
• Week 4: Sept. 20 PDF, HTML. Unix and JUDE Community Lab PDF, HTML. Sept. 22 Continuation of JUDE Community lab. Sept. 24 PDF, HTML.
• Week 5: Sept. 27: Continuation of system-level scenario modeling. Sept. 29: Project review. Oct. 1: Walk-through.
• Week 6: Oct. 4: Project discussion. Oct. 6 PDF, HTML. Eclipse and Subclipse Lab PDF, HTML.
• Week 7: Oct. 13: Experimentation with chatkaro12m server and client. Oct. 15: Study of chatkaro12m server and client. Study questions.
• Week 10: Nov. 1 PDF, HTML. Java Design Patterns.