Software Development -- CS 121

Notes and Abbreviations
Calendar	Books
Readings are in red	MC--Code Complete, Steve McConnell
Due items are in black	FP--Engineering Long Lasting Software Fox and Patterson
Labs are in green	HF--Head First, Software Development
Actions are in magenta
Lectures are in blue

September
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
2 Week 1	3	4 Introduction Kessler; WritingBadSoftware; Spectrum; Rajlich; Brooks; Chaos; Agile Principles; FP 1 TODO Phase1, Intro Questionnaire, Lab 1	5	6 Requirements TeamCreation MC 3.1-3.4, 20.1; HF C 1, 2; FP C 4,8; Game Design; Ambler; Shodan; ReqTraps; Z; Goal Stack; TODO Trac SetUp,	7	8
9 Week 2 DUE: Competitive Analysis High Concept Elicitation Prep Mgmt Update	10	11 Customer Elicitation DUE: FP 4, HF 3,4 Lab 2	12	13 Requirements Modeling Bittner; Firesmith; Customer; PacMan use cases; Class diagrams; Sequence diagrams	14	15
16 Week 3 DUE: Customer Elicitation Rpt Game Treatment Use Cases Tech Assessment Mgmt Update	17	18 Design Practice MC 5.1-2,,5.4-5, 20.1, 21; HF 5, 6; UML Tutorial TODO UMLet: UML tool Lab 3	19	20 Design Principles Games MC 5.2-3; HF 6,7,8; FP 4;	21	22
23 Week 4 DUE: Proposal Mgmt Update	24	25 Proposal Review Process Project Phase 2 Lab 4	26	27 Design Patterns Phase 1 Review Huston Design Patterns , Singleton, Adapter, Bridge, Observer, Strategy	28	29
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October
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Week 5 DUE: Prototype Final Proposal Mgmt Update Phase 1 Critique	1	2 Architecture Review Process UI game design talk Usability; NOT suck Games; Lab 5	3	4 Teams: Prototype Demo DUE: Architecture Review Package	5	6
7 Week 6 DUE: Mgmt Update Code Update Architecture Review Process Preparation	8	9 Teams: Architectural Design Review Lab 6	10	11 Quiz Phase 1 Survey CAMSYS	12	13
14 Week 7 DUE: Mgmt Update Code Update UI Design/Task Analysis Revised Architecture Package	15	16 VideoUsability Testing Usability Testing Teams: UI Test Upping usability Lab 7	17	18 Testing Python Testing Taxonomy F&P C 5;	19	20 BREAK
21 Week 8 BREAK	22 BREAK	23 BREAK	24	25 Surveys & Communications Presentation Skills 1 Presentation Skills 2 Presentation Skills 3 Team Status F&P C 5;	26	27
28 Week 9 DUE: Mgmt Update Code Update Final UI Pre Alpha	29	30 No Class during scheduled Class Time 11:00..12:30 Outside Testing Teams: Sycamore Testing Lab 9 Teams: Create Test Plan Teams: Create Game Surveys	31

November
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
				1 Teams: Alpha Release Presentation	2	3
4 Week 10 DUE: Mgmt Update Code Update Almost Final Test Plan Package Alpha	5	6 Teams: Alpha Game Testing Released Alpha Lab 10	7	8 Phase 3 Code Quality/Policy How to Write Bad Code F&P C 5; DUE: Test Plan Review Package	9	10
11 Week 11 DUE: Mgmt Update Code Update Testing Log	12	13 Teams: Beta Development Lab 11	14	15 Teams: Beta Development	16	17
18 Week 12 DUE: Mgmt Update Code Update Testing Log	19	20 Teams: Beta Testing g Mexican Pizza, Casablanca with avocado Released Beta Lab 12	21	22 Thanksgiving Break	23 Thanksgiving Break	24 Thanksgiving Break
25 Week 13 DUE: Mgmt Update Code Update Testing Log	26	27 Team 4: Lihue2 Beta Presentation Lab 13	28	29 Team 2: RiodeValle Test Plan Review Presentation	30

December
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
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2 Week 14 DUE: Mgmt Update Code Update Testing Log	3	4 Team 3: Lihue1 Code Review Presentation Lab 14	5	6 Team 1: Sycamore Project Review Presentation	7	8
9 Week 15 DUE: Final Test Plan Package Mgmt Update Code Update Testing Log	10	11 11:00..12:30 Outside Testing Teams: Project Test (Sycamore) Normal Class Time: Course Review Course Summary Midterm Answers PeerReview.doc PeerReview.pdf Lab 15	12	13 Class Cancelled Project Review Due Teams Pairwise Project Review	14	15
16	17	18	19 Final, 2pm Project Build	20 DUE: 5pm Final Report PeerReview.doc	21	22
23	24	25	26	27 Grades Due	28	29

Mike Erlinger