CPS 410 - Software Engineering

Course Syllabus

CPS 410 covers the fundamentals of good software practices. This course focuses on the human aspects of software development. Students go through the entire software process lifecycle (requirements elicitation, design, implementation, testing, maintenance) and experience what it is like working in a team on an industry-strength project.

Projects this semester:

1. Human-in-the-Loop Drone Obstacle Course

2. 3D FPS Battle Royale Game

3. 2D Platformer RPG Game

4. A Cloud-Native App for Museum Scheduling

5. Unsupervised Machine Learning: A GTA V Self Driving Car

6. An Improved Pathfinding AI for Minecraft

7. A DJango-Enabled Tutor Finding Website

8. Law Website for Michigan Lawyers

Changes this semester:

• This class is being offered in a HyFlex format

• I am co-teaching this class with Dr. Patrick Kinnicutt

Lecture Slides:

• Week 1 - Introduction

  • Syllabus Review & HyFlex Policies

  • Project Ideas

  • Software Process Models

• Week 2 - Agile

  • Software Process Models (continued)

  • Agile Manifesto

    • Whiteboard Notes

  • Code Repositories

• Week 3 - Agile - Continued

  • Scrum Board Simulation

  • User Stories

    • Whiteboard Notes

• Week 4 - Agile - Continued

  • Daily Standup

    • Whiteboard Notes

    • Example of a bad daily standup

  • New Venture Competition

    • Presentation

    • Handout

    • Kick-Off Slides

• Week 5 - Software Estimation

  • Commitments

• Week 6 - Estimation (Cont.) & Kanban

  • Planning Poker

• Week 7 - Kanban

  • Kanban vs Scrum

    • Whiteboard Notes

    • Supplemental Video

  • UML

    • Use Case Diagram, Statecharts, and Context Diagrams

    • Detailed Use Case and Use Case Diagram Example

    • Tracability Matrix

• Week 8 - Midterm Prep

  • Jeopardy Game

  • Jeopardy Game Results

  • Midterm Study Guide

  • Discussions - Team 4 / 2

• Week 9 - Midterm & Review

  • Midterm Results

  • Discussions - Team 5 / 7

• Week 10 - Invited Speaker

  • Invited Speaker: Laura Fernau (Scrum Master at Insulet)

  • Discussions - Team 3 / 8

• Week 11 - TDD

  • Test Driven Development

  • Discussions - Team 6

• Week 12 - Software Architectures & Patents

  • Architecture vs Design Patterns Discussion

    • n-Tier Architecture Whiteboard Notes

  • Software Architecture

  • Software Quality Metrics

  • Software Patents

    • High-Level Patent Law (US focused)

    • Detailed Patent Law & International Differences

• Week 13 - Team Presentations

  • Team Meetings (M)

  • Team Demo (W) - 1 & 6

  • Team Demo (F) - 7 & 4

• Week 14 - Team Presentations

  • Team Demo (M) - 3 & 8

  • Team Demo (W) - 5 & 2

• Week 15 - Final

Assignments:

• Assignment 1 (due Aug 28)

• Project Part 1 (due October 5th)

• Project Part 2 (due October 19th)

• Project Part 3 (due November 6th)

• Project Part 4 (due November 18th)

Handouts

• AITP/ACM Flier

• Dr. Redei’s Recommendations for Commenting Best Practices

Midterm

• Jeopardy Game

• Study Guide

• Answers to Sample Questions

Final

• Study Guide

• Bonus! Final Study Session

• Parting Notes & Jokes

Number of students: 30