CS292{C,W}. Software Development and Professional Practice

Prerequisites: CS231C and CS246C, or CS221W and CS250W

Syllabus:

• Event-driven programming: Event-handling methods; event propagation; exception handling
• Foundations of human-computer interaction: Human-centered development and evaluation; human performance models; accommodating human diversity; principles of good design and good designers; engineering tradeoffs; introduction to usability testing
• Using APIs: API programming; class browsers and related tools; programming by example; debugging in the API environment; introduction to component-based computing
• Building a simple graphical user interface: Principles of graphical user interfaces; GUI toolkits
• Graphic systems: Raster and vector graphics systems; video display devices; physical and logical input devices; issues facing the developer of graphical systems
• Software processes: Software life-cycle and process models; process assessment models; software process metrics
• Software requirements and specifications: Requirements elicitation; requirements analysis modeling techniques; functional and nonfunctional requirements; prototyping; basic concepts of formal specification techniques
• Software design: Fundamental design concepts and principles; design patterns; software architecture; structured design; object-oriented analysis and design; component-level design; design for reuse
• Software validation: Validation planning; testing fundamentals, including test plan creation and test case generation; black-box and white-box testing techniques; unit, integration, validation, and system testing; object-oriented testing; inspections
• Software evolution: Software maintenance; characteristics of maintainable software; reengineering; legacy systems; software reuse
• Software project management: Team management; project scheduling; software measurement and estimation techniques; risk analysis; software quality assurance; software configuration management; project management tools
• Social context of computing: Introduction to the social implications of computing; social implications of networked communication; growth of, control of, and access to the Internet; gender-related issues; international issues
• Methods and tools of analysis: Making and evaluating ethical arguments; identifying and evaluating ethical choices; understanding the social context of design; identifying assumptions and values
• Professional and ethical responsibilities: Community values and the laws by which we live; the nature of professionalism; various forms of professional credentialing and the advantages and disadvantages; the role of the professional in public policy; maintaining awareness of consequences; ethical dissent and whistle-blowing; codes of ethics, conduct, and practice; dealing with harassment and discrimination; "Acceptable use" policies for computing in the workplace
• Risks and liabilities of computer-based systems: Historical examples of software risks; implications of software complexity; risk assessment and management

Units covered:

PF5	Event-driven programming	2	core hours (of 4)
HC1	Foundations of human-computer interaction	2	core hours (of 6)
HC2	Building a simple graphical user interface	2	core hours
GV1	Fundamental techniques in graphics	2	core hours
GV2	Graphic systems	1	core hour
SP2	Social context of computing	3	core hours
SP3	Methods and tools of analysis	2	core hours
SP4	Professional and ethical responsibilities	3	core hours
SP5	Risks and liabilities of computer-based systems	2	core hours
SE1	Software design	4	core hours (of 8)
SE2	Using APIs	3	core hours (of 5)
SE3	Software tools and environments	1	core hour (of 3)
SE4	Software processes	2	core hours
SE5	Software requirements and specifications	3	core hours (of 4)
SE6	Software validation	2	core hours (of 3)
SE7	Software evolution	3	core hours
SE8	Software project management	3	core hours

Notes:
[to be supplied]

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