CIS 540 and CIS 543
Software Engineering Project I
Dr. Gustafson
dag@cis.ksu.edu
http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~dag
Office Hours: TU8:30 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
Software Project Management –
Stellman and Greene
 Software Engineering (Schaum Outline
Series) – Gustafson
 No Pressman
 Optional - Absolute C++ (3rd edition
prefered) - Savitch
 Applied
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TTYP – turn to your partner
 Purpose
– active learning
– Student learns better, retains more
 Process
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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
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Repetition – 7 times
Framework
– Factual knowledge
» Prior knowledge
– Conceptual framework
– Organize to facilitate retrieval
» Memory lanes
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Concentration
– 10 minutes
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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
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– An individual activity
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Lecture -TU 1:05-2:20
– Q&A 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
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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
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Why?
– Guidance – what to look for
– Repetition
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Why individual?
– You don’t learn by copying answers
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What I expect
– Do quiz with text/articles open
– Don’t send emails about the PLQ
– Don’t discuss in labs or anywhere where other students might
overhear
– Don’t post answers
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Individual Assignments
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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 student’s work
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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
Cats
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Teams
1 team leader ; 3-5 members
 everyone does everything
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– 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
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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, redemonstrations
– 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 don’t pass C++ exam will have to do
the Monday night labs.
 Final C++ exam on Monday, Nov 19
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Course Grading
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Individual
– Exams, labs, assignments
– Unexcused absences
– Lecture participation (extra credit)
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Teams
– Presentations, web pages, time logs, and documentation
– Weekly percentage * team total
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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 –
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8.5 by 11 inches
handwritten
turn in with exam
your own work
each midterm, 3 for final
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Unexcused Absences - 5 pts each
 send
email to dag@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
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Three Sections
– Individual pts - 5*absences
– 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
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– 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
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– homework, pop quizzes, 2 exams, final, labs, absences
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Team Points
– documentation, presentations, team web page
– weekly percentage assigned by team leader
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C++
– Assignments, C++ exams, C++ on final, pop quizzes
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 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
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- 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@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
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