CPS 410 - Software Engineering

Course Syllabus

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CPS 410 covers the fundamentals of good software practices. Here we cover the software process lifecycle end-to-end (requirements elicitation, design, implementation, testing, maintenance). Students complete this class with experience working in a team to develop software that is continued in CPS 498.

To attend the class virtually, please connect via webex at: https://cmich.webex.com/meet/redei1a

Lecture Slides:
For lectures there is a <link for powerpoint slides> - Video < followed by a link to the video>.

• Week 1 - Introduction

  • Lecture 1 - Introduction

  • Lecture 2 - Version Control - Video (8 min)

    • Video: Using Github to Rollback a Broken Build (6 min)

  • Lecture 3 - GitHub Hands On

    • Github Student Developer Pack

• Week 2 - Software Development Life Cycle

  • Lecture 4 - Software Development Life Cycle - Video (6 min)

    • Whiteboard Notes

  • Lecture 5 - Software Process Models - Video (12 min)

    • Whiteboard Notes

• Week 3 - Team Formation

  • Lecture 6 - Project Inspiration

  • Lecture 7 - Team Formation

  • Career Fair (Virtual)

• Week 4 - Agile

  • Lecture 9 - Agile Team Composition

    • AutoOwners Visit

  • Lecture 10 - Agile Manifesto - Video (13 min)

  • Lecture 10 - Functional vs Non-Functional Requirements

    • Whiteboard Notes

  • Meetings: Team 1 / Team 2

• Week 5 - Team Meetings (Cont).

  • Meetings: Team 3 / 4

  • Meetings: Team 5

• Week 6 - Agile (Cont.)

  • Lecture 14 - Review of Requirements

    • Whiteboard Notes

  • Lecture 15 - Sprint Overview

    • Whiteboard Notes

    • Scrum Overview - Video (10 min)

• Week 7 - The Scrum Board

  • [M] Wellness Day - no class!

  • Lecture 15 - Scrum Board - Video (8 min)

  • Lecture 15 - Scrum Story Board Simulation

  • Lecture 16 - Story Points - Video (5 min)

• Week 8 - Ceremonies & Artifacts

  • Lecture 18 - Traceability Matrix

  • Lecture 17 - Artifacts of Scrum

• Week 9 - Midterm

  • Lecture 19 - Midterm Review

  • Midterm Exam

• Week 10 - Planning Poker

  • Lecture 21 - Software Estimation w/ Planning Poker

    • Planning Poker Simulation on Whiteboard

• Week 11 - Kanban

  • Lecture 22 - Kanban vs Scrum

    • Video

• Week 12 - Final Project Expectations

  • End of Semester Planning

  • Lecture 25 - The Unified Modeling Language (UML)

• Week 13 - Thanksgiving

  • Lecture 26 - UML Association Types

• Week 14 - No class

• Week 15 - Team Presentations

  • [M] - Team 4

  • [W] - Team 3 / Team 2

  • [F] - Team 1 / Team 5

• Week 16 - FINAL

Project Parts:

• Part 1 - Concept (due September 29th)

  • Example #1 - Digital Scanner with Associations to Progression and Achievements

  • Example #2 - SimpleValuation

• Part 2 - Specification (due October 22nd 25th)

  • Example - Tutor Finding Website

• Part 3 - Design (due Nov 29th Dec 3rd)

  • Example - SimpleValuation

  • Notes on how to improve

• Part 4 - Prototype (due December 10th)

Handouts

• AITP Meeting

  • Coding Competition (Nov 17th)

• New Venture Competition Schedule

• New Venture Competition Flyer

• ERP Sim Competition (Spring)

• GitKraken Cheat Sheet

• Github Badges

• Github Markdowns

• CMU Financial Wellness Center

• Dr. Redei’s Recommendations for Commenting Best Practices

• History of Functional and Object-Oriented Programming Languages

• Get Adobe Creative Cloud

• AutoOwners Employment Info (Sept 20th)

Midterm

• Midterm Prep

  • Answers

• Detailed Study Guide

• Jeopardy Game

Final

• Final Exam Format and Notes

• Detailed Study Guide

• Study Session on 12/11 (Video 1hr 10min)

Tips & Tricks

• Tip #1 - Video: Retirement Accounts (5 min)

• DIY Budget Spreadsheet

• DIY Financial Tracker (has 1 macro to create charts)

  • DIY Financial Tracker (w/o macros)

Project Ideas

• Hatz Classic Bi-Plane (Sims / Visualizations)

  • Develop the software for simulating an American designed kit airplane in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

    • Pictures of Airplane

    • Github Project

    • SDK w/ Documentation

    • Support Forum

    • Tutorials for modeling and airplane in MSFS 2020

      • Video #1

      • Video #2

      • Video #3

      • Video #4

      • Video #5

• Build PCB + Middleware for Rollercoaster (IOT)

  • Design and fabricate a PCB to drive a rollercoaster and build the controller software for it. More details to come

• Into the Abyss (Gaming)

  • Continue the development of the horror-thriller game: Into the Abyss

• DroneZone (Autonomous Systems)

  • Build a drone and develop software to control it from a groundstation, reading back the telemetry data from the drone.

Number of students: 55
(29 in the 10am section and 26 in the noon section)