CS ST3: Schedule

COS ST3: Schedule and Syllabus

Final Project

There will be two three-week final projects. For each project we will spend 3 class meetings (1 1/2 weeks) discussing and planning design. This will be followed by three weeks of coding. The second final project can either be an addition to the first project, a complete redesign and reimplementation of the first project, or a completely different project.

Student-led discussions

There are two types of classes. These types are topic classes and design classes. Each student will lead the discussion for one design class and one topic class.

Topic classes cover one of 11 topics from the course syllabus, or a student-chosen topic if applicable. Students must sign up in advance for a particular topic.

Design classes involve the discussion and design of a large scale system (on the level of an operating system). The class will design parts of this system over several classes, guided by the student discussion leader. This includes design classes devoted to the final projects.

Suggested Discussion Format

Students are free to lead classes in whatever manner they feel is best. However, a few suggested discussion formats follow:

Present a system build largely upon a given technique or technology. Argue that this is the best way to design this particular system. Explore alternate designs that the class proposes.
Give a brief overview of the technology or technique, then have the class construct a design for a given problem. When a reasonable design has been made, present the design of a real program and discuss the differences and similarities.
Give a brief overview of the topic, then have the class use that technique to design two or three different programs/systems. Make the programs short and high-level. Ideally one program should be a good use of this technology, one should be bad, and the other could go either way.

Class Discussion Schedule

Each student must sign up to lead one design class and one topic class.

Week	Date	Topic
3	2/18	Design of Final Project #1
4	2/23	Design of Final Project #1
4	2/25	Design of Final Project #1
5	3/2	Multiple Inheritance
5	3/4	Strong Abstractions
6	3/9	Algorithmic and Object Abstractions
6	3/11	Bidirectional Abstraction and Protected Interfaces
7	3/23	Wrap up of abstraction, Class-level Modularity
7	3/25	Component Object Models
8	3/30	Design of Final Project #2
8	4/1	Design of Final Project #2
9	4/6	Design of Final Project #2
9	4/8	Scripting Languages and Scripting Support
10	4/13	Structuring for Incremental Development
10	4/15	Structuring for Future Expansion, Modification of Code by others
11	4/20	Advanced Topices - Versioning, Scripting
11	4/22	Large Scale Design Class 1
12	4/27	Large Scale Design Class 2
12	4/29	Large Scale Design Class 3

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