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Week 7 (November 6, 8)

The midterm is finally ready. It is due Monday, November 12 Tuesday, November 13, at 5pm, and can be turned in by email.

Let's get back on a schedule of Tuesday presentations. For November 6, I'd like you to describe what features you intend to implement for project 2 along with the main technical tasks or challenges you anticipate.

Week 4 (October 16, 18)

The reading for this week (short and easy, I think) is Michael Cusumano's recent CACM column comparing iterative development practices. This is a column, not a research paper, so it's organized less formally and does not try to make a rock-solid argument based on evidence, but I think it's a useful introduction not only to some modern practices but to ways of thinking about processes and practices as something that is designed. We'll talk about it Tuesday if time allows, otherwise Thursday.

Week 2

• Tuesday: We will start with presentations. 10-15 minutes is fine. Please describe how you have organized yourselves, and how you are (currently) approaching the problem. I suggest using presentation software (PowerPoint, Keynote, etc), but this is no a high pressure presentation. Please also come prepared to offer constructive criticism to the other team (or to your own).

• If you want a shared account for your group, remember to send me an email listing the CS account names for each of your group members.

Week 1

• Tuesday, 25 September: First day of class. I will hand out an entry questionnaire to be filled out and turned back in class. It is essential to attend the first day so that I can assign you to a project team.

• Thursday, 27 September: I will announce team assignments in class, and deal with any problems at that time.

  Source code baseline [maps-07f-base.zip] is available. This is the code from CIS423/510 in spring with some modifications made during the summer by two high school interns and me. There is quite a bit of redundancy in this (I didn't try to clean it up before archiving), and there isn't much documentation, but I'll walk you through the organization of the code and other artifacts in class Thursday.

  The baseline code and other materials are now available on a separate project 1 resources page.

  Readings are posted on a separate page. The first reading, which you should do before class on Thursday of week 2, is posted now.

• New room MCK 214: Starting Thursday, September 27, we meet in Mckenzie room 214.