CIS 540 and CIS 543 Software Engineering Project I

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CIS 540 and CIS 543Software Engineering Project I

• Dr. Gustafson
• dag_at_cis.ksu.edu
• http//people.cis.ksu.edu/dag
• Office Hours TU830 or by appt

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Information Form turn in at end of class

• You must have C or better in 501 (if you are
  required to take it)
• Project area preferences
• If you have problems, indicate your issues and
  check box
• If you are enrolled in 540, you must take 541 or
  your 540 grade will turn to an F

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Course Goals
The goal of cis540 is to prepare students to be
software engineers. This includes learning
software engineering ideas and terminology,
learning how to apply software engineering
techniques, learning how to apply project
management skills, and developing skills in
team-oriented development.
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Specific Goals (1)
1) Learning how to interact with a user to
develop requirements for a project and specify
those requirements in a precise fashion.   2)
Learning how to plan a software development
effort for a team, including how to breakdown a
project into tasks, to develop a project plan,
and to estimate software costs.   3) Learning how
to present your project to peers/users/managers,
including the use of reviews and
walkthroughs.  
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Specific Goals (2)
4) Learning how to apply Personal Software
Process ideas to your own effort, including how
to log your effort, estimate productivity, and
build a checklist. 5) Learning how to use
different models to specify and communicate to
the user and other developers different views of
your project.  
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Specific Goals (3)
6) Learning how to develop effective
documentation for your project.   7) Learning
how to test software, including every statement
coverage and integration testing.   8) Learning
how to measure complexity of software.
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Texts

• Applied Software Project Management Stellman
  and Greene
• Software Engineering (Schaum Outline Series)
  Gustafson
• No Pressman
• Optional - Absolute C (3rd edition prefered) -
  Savitch

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TTYP turn to your partner

• Purpose active learning
• Student learns better, retains more
• Process
• Try to answer yourself
• Share with your neighbor
• Reach consensus
• Prepare to answer

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TTYP1 goals

• Which of the specific goals will be the hardest
  to achieve and why?

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How people learn

• Repetition 7 times
• Framework
• Factual knowledge
• Prior knowledge
• Conceptual framework
• Organize to facilitate retrieval
• Memory lanes
• Concentration
• 10 minutes
• Meta-cognition
• Thinking about thinking

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Metacognition

• Self knowledge about your own knowledge
• Or Do you know what you know?

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Lecture Conduct

• Reading assignment
• Prelecture Quiz on K-State Online
• An individual activity
• Lecture -TU 105-220
• QA about PLQ
• Active Learning
• TTYP
• Venn Diagrams
• Participation

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Your Responsibilities for lecture

• Read assignments
• Do PreLecture quizzes (individual task)
• In lecture
• Turn off cell phones
• Pay attention do not multitask
• Build framework/Ask questions/Participate
• Be respectful of others

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Pre-Lecture Quiz

• Why?
• Guidance what to look for
• Repetition
• Why individual?
• You dont learn by copying answers
• What I expect
• Do quiz with text/articles open
• Dont send emails about the PLQ
• Dont discuss in labs or anywhere where other
  students might overhear
• Dont post answers

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Individual Assignments

• An individual assignment is one that must be done
  entirely by oneself. It is NOT appropriate on an
  individual assignment to
• Work with other students
• Ask other students about how they are doing the
  assignment
• Show your work to other students
• Look at other students work
• It is appropriate to send email to dag to ask
  questions about the assignment. Make sure that
  you state your question clearly.

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Classification

• One of the basic skills is to classify ideas
• Venn diagrams

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Teams

• 1 team leader 3-5 members
• everyone does everything
• Minus 50 pts if you do not have significant code
  in team project
• 3 presentations per semester (N24)
• complete life cycle - req through delivery
• Online note book of decisions and issues
• complete documentation - on web page and on a CD
  for each presentation
• assignments by team leader on web page

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Team Projects

• Submit team choices by email
• Topics
• Web-based tools master gardeners, agency for
  aging
• Vision
• Robotics
• AI
• Tools analysis, testing, Kakura
• Games

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Team Progress

• One of my responsibilities is to try to ensure
  that each team makes good progress
• I may assign re-presentations, re-demonstrations
• this is not punishment, but an attempt to get on
  track on project

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Labs

• 2 hours
• TA presentation
• individual task
• Tools and Techniques
• Attendance and Participation Required

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C

• Every graduate, at the minimum, should be able to
  program linked lists in C
• Many class members know this already
• C exam on Thursday, Aug 30 (closed book) There
  will be a review session, Monday, Aug 27 7-10pm
  place to be announced
• Those who dont pass C exam will have to do the
  Monday night labs.
• Final C exam on Monday, Nov 19

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Course Grading

• Individual
• Exams, labs, assignments
• Unexcused absences
• Lecture participation (extra credit)
• Teams
• Presentations, web pages, time logs, and
  documentation
• Weekly percentage team total
• C
• Waived if passed test
• Otherwise, C exam on Nov 21

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Exams

• two midterms (100 points each)
• one final (200 points cis543 only)
• crib sheets
• 8.5 by 11 inches
• handwritten
• turn in with exam
• your own work
• 1 each midterm, 3 for final

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Unexcused Absences - 5 pts each

• send email to dag_at_cis.ksu.edu before the absence
  to avoid 5 point penalty
• you are still responsible for making up work

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Section Grading

• Three Sections
• Individual pts - 5absences
• Team pts avg wk
• C lab and C final
• 90 or above - A
• 80 or above B
• 70 or above C
• Below 70 - retake class
• Grad students must have above 80 in all
• Late Assignments
• 10 after start of class - 10 each additional day

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Average of three grades (543)

• Your final grade will be the average of the
  following three (5 if 540/1) grades (if you have
  C or better in all three areas otherwise the
  lowest grade)
• Individual
• homework, pop quizzes, 2 exams, final, labs,
  absences
• Team Points
• documentation, presentations, team web page
• weekly percentage assigned by team leader
• C
• Assignments, C exams, C on final, pop quizzes

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540 and 541

• Grades will be figured next May. It will be the
  average of the fall team pts, the fall individual
  pts, the C pts, the spring team pts and the
  spring individual pts If all are above 70.
• If any of your fall pts are below 70, you will
  not be allowed to continue.

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Exceptions

• Your final grade will be the average (or lowest)
  of the following the individual and team grades,
  if you pass the C exam on Aug 28
• If you are a graduate student, you must take this
  class for graduate credit and you must make B or
  better in each area. Otherwise, you will receive
  the lowest of the area.

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Information

• www - course web page
• http//www.cis.ksu.edu/dag
• lecture slides
• schedules
• syllabus PLQ questions
• grades through kstate online grade system

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Questions or concerns

• send email - dag_at_cis.ksu.edu

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Assignments

• Lab next week UML
• Readings
• L2-Cusamano (KSOL) fill out MM
• SOS, section 2.5-2.7
• L3 - Stellman preface and chapter 1
• Prelecture quiz Wed 11am to Thurs 11am
• Monday, Aug 27 7-10pm is C help session

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1 minute question

• On the 3by5 card, write one thing that you want
  to learn this semester in this class
• Include your name and your lab time