Computer Science 121 - Software Development (Spring 2007)

Lecture, Reading and Exam Schedule

*There will be daily quizzes on the assigned reading

Project Schedule

Supplementary Reading

I realize that I am assigning a great deal of reading for this class. You should realize that:

1. I have taken some trouble to find brief and relatively pure treatments of the key subjects. Any normal text would have include much more and less critical material.
2. I have tried to avoid discussions of interesting but tangential subjects that are often covered in texts.
3. The assigned readings are, for the most part, only trivial introductions to subjects about which much more can be said.

If you decide that you are interested in going deeper into some of these subjects, or exploring related subjects that didn't quite make the cut for this course, I have tried to assemble a collection of good papers that can help you take the next step in understanding. These are not assigned reading and I will not base test questions on their treatments.

• [Chri92] Christel and Kang, Issues in Requirements Elicitation CMU SEI Technical report 92-TR-012
• [Wiki] Wikipedia, Brainstorming, A brief introduction and overview of brainstorming processes.
• Effective Meetings
  
• Decision Making
  
• Agile Requirements
  
• Erich Gama, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides,
  Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software
  Addison-Wesley, 1995.
• Mary Shaw, David Garlan
  Architectures: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline
  Prentice-Hall, 1996
• Javadoc reference manaual