CSC301 - Introduction To Software Engineering

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This repo serves as the homepage for CSC301H1F, section L0101 (i.e. The Tuesday/Thursday morning section). This page will contain general information and important announcements, please make sure to visit it regularly.

General Info

• Instructor: Mohamed A. Mansour, [email protected]
• Lectures:
  • Tuesdays/Thursdays 10-11, BA1200
  • No lecture on Nov 18th due to November Break
• Tutorials:
  • Thursdays 11-12 (Just after the Thursday lecture)
  • Three tutorial sections at BA1200, BA2165, and BA2185
  • No tutorials on the first week
• TA's:
  • Jia Ming (Anson) Liang Email: [email protected] (BA1200)
  • Mahsa Sadi Email: [email protected] (BA2165)
  • Rachel Twiss Email: [email protected] (BA2185)
• Discussion Board
• Official course info sheet

Marking Scheme

What	When (Tentative)	How Much
Mini-exercise	Mon, 22 Sep	1%
Exercise		9%
Project Phase1	Tue, 14 Oct (10pm)	8%
Midterm	Thu, 30 Oct	10%
Project Phase2	Mon, 27 Oct Wed, 5 Nov	12%
Project Phase3	Mon, 10 Nov Tue, 18 Nov	10%
Project Phase4	Mon, 24 Nov Mon, 1 Dec	15%
Final Exam	TBD	35%

Note: You must get at least 40% on the final exam in order to pass the course.

Lecture and related resources

• Week 1

  • [Introduction and Motivation] (CSC301-F14-Week1.pdf)
  • Version Control (Introduction to Distributed Version Control Systems and Git)

• Week 2

  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • Git Hands-on (By using only the following three resources, you can start from knowing nothing about Git to being very comfortable with Git in a very short time)
    • [Learn Git in 15 mins] (https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1)
    • [An interactive Git Cheatsheet] (http://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html)
    • [Learn Git Branching] (http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/)

• Week 3

  • [User-Centric Planning] (301F14-Week3-User-Centric Planning.pdf)

• Week 4

  • Coupling vs Cohesion

• Week 5

  • CRC Cards Refresher
  • Work on the project

• Week 6

  • Guest [lecture] (Week6-SWDevInRealWorld.pdf) by Sandy Kemsley on Requirements, MDD and BPM
  • Guest [lecture] (Week6-BizOfSW.pdf) by [Mario Grech] (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B51-wIK4rwiuaEk2N2tPNjM0YTg/edit) on Entrepreneurship

• Week 7

  • Software Architecture
  • SOLID - OO Design Principles
  • Midterm prep. and announcements

• Week 8

  • Midterm

• Week 9

  • Design Patterns
  • Project Phase II - Demos

• Week 10

  • Thu. Lecture is cancelled

• Week 11

  • Design Patterns

• Week 12

  • Design Patterns
  • Project Presentations

• Week 13

  • Project Presentations
  • Agile Software Development
  • Final Exam Review -- [Another Review] (https://github.com/csc301-fall2014/CSC301H1F-L5101-Home/blob/master/exam-review.md)