Syllabus

CS491B Software Design Lab

Fall 2004
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lectures:

Friday 9:00am - noon and 1:00pm - 3:00pm, in E&T A220

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: MW 4-6pm and TR 3:30-5:30pm, or by appointment, in E&T A317

Course Description:

This the second part of a two-quarter software design lab, where each student must develop a non-trivial, individual project under the supervision of an instructor. During the six-month period, students will go through each stage of a project development cycle, from project ideas, requirement analysis, system design, to implementation, refinement, and presentation.

Prerequisites:

CS491A

Software Tools:

Required - Email
Optional (for access online lecture notes) - Adobe Acroread and/or MS PowerPoint

Grading Policy:

Project 65%, Presentation 20%, Technical Writing 15%

Tentative Schedule:

Week	Topics
0	Administrative issues Effective Presentations
1	CVS Subversion
2	Make Ant
3	Struts Spring
4	.NET ASP
5	Technical Writing 101 Java ME Java 3D
6	Lisp Eclipse
7	Flash OpenGL Project Reprot Draft
8	Information Retrieval
9	Final Presentations (I)
10	Final Presentations (II)
11	Project Report

Online Resources:

Class Home Page - http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/csun/teaching/cs491b/index.html
Source Version Control Systems

Open Source Development with CVS - http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/
Version Control with Subversion - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

Build Tools

GNU make - http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
Ant - http://ant.apache.org/

Java Web Application Frameworks

Struts - http://struts.apache.org/
Spring - http://www.springframework.org/

Academic Integrity:

Cheating will not be tolerated. Cheating on any assignment or exam will be taken seriously. All parties involved will receive a grade of F for the course and be reported to the Academic Senate.