Harvey Mudd College
Computer Science
Spring 2004

CS121: Software Development

Lecture:

T&Th 1:15-2:30, LAC

Professor:

Z Sweedyk, 2341 Olin, x78360

Mail: z@cs.hmc.edu

Office hours: see my schedule

Course mailing list:

cs-121-l@hmc.edu

Tutors/Graders:

Brian Bentow: bbentow@cs.hmc.edu

Ed Heaney: eheaney@cs.hmc.edu

Michael Tuck-Lee: mlee@cs.hmc.edu

What This Course Is About

The objective of this course is to introduce you to the theory and practice of software design and development. You will study the stages of development from requirements specification and analysis through design, implementation, and testing. You will study ways to organize and manage these stages. You will also learn principles of software design including design patterns and anti-patterns. You will apply these principles and techniques in the design and development of three computer games, a 2D arcade game, a 3D miniature golf game, and a final game designed by your team.

We focus on games for several reasons. Games are fun projects and most students have a strong sense of what constitutes a good product. More importantly, games require solutions to a broad range of problems that rarely show up in a single software project. Games are real-time systems with stringent performance constraints. They require good user interface design. They typically use computer graphics and sound. Games can draw on other areas of computer science as well, such as artificial intelligence, computer networking, and computer art. And they often involve the modeling and simulation of physical systems, which requires concepts from mathematics, engineering, and physics.

Examples of games from previous semester can be found here.

Grades

Class participation	5%
Individual assignments	5%
Midterm exam I	10%
Midterm exam II	10%
Arcade game	15%
Miniature golf game	25%
Final project	30%

Textbooks

UML Distilled (3rd Ed.) by Martin Fowler, Addison-Wesley

Design Patterns by Erich Gamma etal., Addison-Wesley

Links

Writing abstracts

POP

Main Project wiki pages

Project 1 wiki pages

Wiki Guidelines

Sample Design document (RPI)

Team Evaluations

CVS Instructions (Turing)

CVS Instructions (Windows)

Project 2 Links

Singleton demo

NeHe site (game development)

Schedule

Date	Topic	Assignment	Due
Tues 1/20/04	Introduction Intro Survey Software's chronic crisis quiz	Reading: "Software's Chronic Crisis", Gibbs Arcade Game Review
Thur 1/22/04	Software Methods	Reading: Brooks Writing abstracts Project 1: Criteria and Concept	Arcade Game Review
Tues 1/27/04	Concept Presentations TWiki tutorial TWiki Guidelines	Reading: Fowler Ch 1 & 2 POP tutorial (3.9-3.11)	Project 1: Criteria and Concept
Thur 1/29/04	Feasibility Use cases Risk analysis Pink Monster demo	Project 1: Concept Assessment	Brooks abstract POP Tutorial (3.9-3.11)
Tues 2/3/04	Introduction to UML	Reading: Fowler Ch 4 and 5 Project 1:Prototype	Project 1: Concept Assessment
Thur 2/5/04	Requirements Specification	Project 1: Design Document
Tues 2/10/04	Intro to Design Principles	Project 1: Version 1	Project 1:Prototype Project 1: Design Document
Thur 2/12/04	Domain to Design Models
Tues 2/17/04	Domain to Design cont.	Reading: Larman & Basili Project 1: Documentation	Project 1: Version 1
Thur 2/19/04	Project 1 Presentations/Demos	OpenGL Tutorial Project 1: Evaluations	Project 1: Documentation Project 1: Presentation
Tues 2/24/04	Project 2 Overview		Larman & Basili abstract OpenGL Tutorial Project 1: Evaluations
Thur 2/26/04	Project Planning	Project 2: Prototype I
Tues 3/2/04	Test Plans Design Patterns: Singleton Composite	Project 2: Prototype II	Project 2: Prototype I
Thur 3/4/04	Design Patterns: Singleton Fascade Adapter Bridge
Tues 3/9/04	Design Review	Reading: "Chrysler Goes to Extremes"	Project 2: Prototype II
Thur 3/11/04	Team meetings
Tues 3/16/04	Spring break
Thur 3/18/04	Spring break
Tues 3/23/04	Design Patterns: Adapter Composite Status Update	Project 2: Prototype III	Chrysler abstract
Thur 3/25/04	Design Patterns: Strategy State Command
Tues 3/30/04	Design Review	Project 2: Golf Game	Project 2: Prototype III
Thur 4/1/04	Design Review cont. Design Patterns: Proxy
Tues 4/6/04	Design Patterns	Project 3: Concept	Project 2: Golf Game code freeze
Thur 4/8/04	Project 2 presentations
Tues 4/13/04	Concept Presentations	Final Project Plan
Thur 4/15/04	No class - team meetings		Final Project Proposals