CS 351: Software Engineering I

Fall 2009

Welcome to Software Engineering

Software Engineering

My philosophy is that understanding the concepts in a non-stressful environment facilitates the ability to learn the material better. The student is expected to actively participate in class, and to ask questions.

Meeting Times

Tuesday, Thursday 12:45 p.m. - 14:00 p.m. in Reid Hall 101.

Textbook

Software Engineering. A Practitoner's Approach, by Roger Pressman & McGraw Hill.
Head First Design Patterns, by Freeman and Freeman & O'Reilly.

Grading

Homework : 45%
Mid Term : 25%
Final : 30%

Grading Policy

The overall grade for the course will be curved.
Homework and exams will be graded on a straight scale. No curve.
If you come to class, read the assigned material, and complete your homework you should do fine in the course.

Instructor

Clem Izurieta EPS 356. 994-3720. Office hours are either when my door is open or Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons.
Email : clemente.izurieta(AT)cs.montana.edu
Dr. Izurieta's website

Policy

You are responsible for any announcements made in class.
No late submissions are allowed unless an emergency occurs.
Unless otherwise stated, all work must be done individually.
Academic DISHONESTY will be dealt severely. This should never be a problem, however instances of cheating do occur. There are web sites in the Internet that provide answers to high bidders. I do monitor these sites. If you do not know how to solve a problem, come see me!
You are expected to attend class.

Date	Lecture Topic	Reading	Graded Events
09/01 09/03	Class Introduction, expectations. Introduction to Software Engineering Processes, Lifecycles. Prescriptive models.	Ch. 1 and 2 Pressman Appendix 1 - An Introduction to UML	HW 1 (Due 9/10)
09/08 09/10	Agile Models, UML. Introduction to Design Patterns	Ch. 3 Pressman, Ch 1 Design Patterns Review your Object Oriented Concepts
09/15 09/17	Strategy design pattern Observer design pattern	Ch 2 Design Patterns	HW 2 (Due 9/22)
09/22 09/24	Software Engineering Guiding Principles	Ch 4 Pressman (Pay attention to the requirements and modeling principles in section 4.3) Ch 5 Pressman, Requirements Engineering	In-Class Exercise UML Use case (1pt. extra credit)
09/29 10/01	Singleton design pattern State design pattern	Ch. 5 and 10 Design Patterns	HW 3 (Due 10/13)
10/06 10/08	Requirements Modeling Function Points	Ch 6 (6.1, 6.3, 6.4) Ch 7 (7.1, 7.2, 7.3) Function Point Handout
10/13 10/15	Review for Exam, and Exam	On Tuesday we will do a review session and the exam is on Thursday.	MidTerm 2008 Mid Term Exam (Thursday 10/15)
10/20 10/22	Factory Pattern	Ch 4 Design Patterns, hand back the mid-term, The YoYo problem	HW 4 (Due 11/3)
10/27 10/29	Design Concepts and Architectural Design	Ch 8, 9 Pressman Formal Methods
11/03 11/05	Component Design	Ch 10 Pressman (exclude section 10.4) Anti-patterns
11/10 11/12	Decorator Pattern	Ch 3 Design Patterns Ch 12 Pressman, Pattern based design. This is a good review.	HW 5 (Due 11/24)
11/17 11/19	Introduction to Testing	Note: There will not be class on 11/17 as I will be visiting Carroll College. Use this time for review or work on your assignments.

Course Outcomes

Understand project lifecycles and management basics.
Understand design patterns and be able to identify when to use them.
Understand the basics of formal methods.
Have a broad sense of the topics involved in Software Engineering.
Understand basic measurements and metrics used in Software Engineering.

Last modified: November 11, 2009.