Syllabus

CS491B Software Design Lab

Spring 2005
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lectures:

Tuesday and Thursday 9:00am - 11:30am, in E&T A210

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: MW 2-4pm and TR 4-6pm, 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%

Schedule:

Week	Topics
1	Administrative issues Some observations on past CS491 projects Project evaluation
2-5	Selected topics CS 491A Project Report (week 2)
6-8	Project related topics Project Report Draft (week 7)
9	Demos
10	Final Presentations
11	Project Due

Online Resources:

Class Home Page - http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/csun/teaching/cs491b/index.html
Class forum on the ACM board
Projects from Fall 2004 - http://sun.calstatela.edu/~cysun/public/cs491b-f04/
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/

Documentation Tools

Javadoc - http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/
Doxygen - http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/

Logging Tools

log4j - http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/index.html
commons-logging - http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging/

Search Tools

lucene - http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and AspectJ - http://eclipse.org/aspectj/
Attribute-Oriented Programming (AOP again?)

XDoclet - http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/xdoclet/index.html
Java 1.5 Annotation

Test-Oriented Programming

JUnit - http://www.junit.org

Databases

New features in SQL Server 2005 - http://www.microsoft.com/sql/default.mspx
hibernate - http://www.hibernate.org/
XSchema and XQuery

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.