ECE 361: Software Engineering and Large System Design

• Instructor Info
• Textbook
• Grading
• Schedule
• Project

Instructor Info

Instructor: Carl Sable
e-mail: CarlSable.Cooper@gmail.com
Office: Room 614

Textbook

"Software Engineering: Theory and Practice, 3rd (or 4th) Edition"
Pfleeger and Atlee

Grading

• Programming Project: 50%
• Test #1: 25%
• Test #2: 25%

Schedule

The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses.

• Wednesday, January 20
  Topic: Course Introduction
• Thursday, January 21
  Topic: Project Description
• Wednesday, January 27
  Topic: Overview of Java
• Thursday, January 28
  Topic: Overview of Java (cont.)
• Wednesday, February 3
  Topic: Overview of Java (cont.)
• Thursday, February 4
  Topic: The Basics of Software Engineering
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 1
  Topic: The Development Process
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 2
  Topic: Project Management
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 3
• Wendesday, February 10
  NO CLASS (Cooper Union closed due to snow storm)
• Thursday, February 11
  Topic: Eclipse
  Topic: Javadoc
• Wednesday, February 17
  Topic: Subersion and Subclipse
• Thursday, February 18
  Topic: Capturing the Requirements
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 4
• Wednesday, Febuary 24
  Topic: System Design
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 5
• Thursday, February 25
  Topic: Object-Oriented Design
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 6
• Wednesday, March 3
  Topic: Databases Overview
• Thursday, March 4
  Topic: Databases Overview (cont.)
  Topic: Programming
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 7
• Wednesday, March 10
  Topic: JDBC, JSP, and MySQL
• Thursday, March 11
  Topic: JDBC, JSP, and MySQL (cont.)
• Wednesday, March 24
  Topic: Unit and Integration Testing
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 8
• Thursday, March 25
  MIDTERM
• Wednesday, March 31
  Topic: System Testing
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 9
• Thursday, April 1
  Meetings with groups
• Wednesday, April 7
  Topic: Java Swing
• Thursday, April 8
  Topic: Delivery
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 10
  Topic: Maintenance
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 11
• Wednesday, April 14
  Topic: Evaluating Products, Processes, and Resources
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 12
• Thursday, April 15
  Topic: JUnit
• Wednesday, April 21
  Topic: Improving Software Organizations
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 13
• Thursday, April 22
  Topic: JavaScript
  Topic: XML
• Wednesday, April 28
  Topic: The Future of Software Engineering
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 14
• Thursday, April 29
  FINAL EXAM
• Wednesday, May 5
  Final Project Presentations
• Thursday, May 6
  Final Project Demos