Syllabus

CS491A Software Design Lab

Summer 2009
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lab:

Friday 10:00am - 5:00pm, in E&T A331

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: MTR 3-5pm, or by appointment, in E&T A317

Course Description:

This the first 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:

CS312, CS320, CS332, CS386, and Senior Standing

Software Tools:

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

Grading Policy:

Project 70% (including 10% for the project proposal), Presentation 15%, Technical Writing 15%. -5% for each class meeting missed, and being late to class for three times will be counted as one missed class.

90 - 100
80 - 90
60 - 80
40 - 60
below 40

A
B
C
D
F

Schedule:

Week	Topics
1	Administrative Issues Course Overview
2	Independence Day
3	Effective Presentation
4-5	[Student Presentations]
6	Writing Project Report
7-9	[Student Presentations]
10-11	Project Presentations

Online Resources:

Class home page - http://sun.calstatela.edu/~cysun/www/teaching/cs491a/index.html
Class forum - http://sun.calstatela.edu/csns/forum/viewForum.html?forumId=31037
Past CS491 projects - http://sun.calstatela.edu/csns/projects.html

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.