Last Modified: September 3, 2001
| Instructor: | Barney Maccabe |
| Office: | EECE 236B |
| Phone: | (505) 277-6504 |
| FAX: | (505) 277-6927 |
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:30-4:30 and by appointment |
| email: | maccabe@cs.unm.edu |
I plan to keep this page fairly static. Topics that are expected to change have been moved to their own pages to make them easier to track.
If you miss a class for any reason, you should check with other students in the class for any handouts. I will not keep copies of handouts (my office is already enough of a mess!)
Email content, whether directed to the class mailing list or me personally, should be plain text (no html, please). Attachments must be postscript (viewable in ghostview, gv) or pdf (viewable in acroread).
Printed copies of homework solutions, project reports and your term paper may be placed in my department mailbox (on the first floor of FEC), at my office (EECE 236B), or at the start of class on the due date.
The class mailing list will be used for announcements related to the class. To subscribe to the class mailing list, visit the following Web page:http://www.cs.unm.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cs460
Links to relevant sites will be added to this part of the page from time to time throughout the semester.
The Web page for the textbook is here.
Ian Sommerville; Software Engineering 6th Edition; Addison-Wesley, 2001
Frederick Brooks; The Mythical Man Month; Addison-Wesley, 1995.
| Activity | Percentage | Expected Number | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exams | 20% | two exams: a midterm exam on October 10th and a final exam on December 13th |
individual |
| Quizes | 5% | 6 to 10 | individual |
| Homework | 10% | 5 to 8 | individual |
| Group Project | 45% | 4 to 5 stages | group |
| Presentations | 10% | one for each group member | group/individual |
| Journal | 10% | one | individual |
Disclaimer: I reserve the right to change the relative weighting should there be a substantial change in the expected number for any of the activities.
The two exams will be administered in-class and closed-book. They will focus on the reading material (text book and papers assigned for review) covered to the date of the exam.
The midterm exam will function as a buffer. If your grade on the final exam is better than you grade on the midterm, the midterm grade will be discarded. Otherwise, your midterm grade will constitute 40% of your exam score. If you miss the midterm exam for any reason, your final exam grade will be used for your exam score.
All students are required to take the final exam.
Quizes will be adminstered in-class, closed-book and at the start of class. They will not be announced prior to the quiz, and may cover any ofthe reading material assigned to the date of the quiz.
Homework assignments will be made from exercises in the text. While you are welcome to discuss the exercises with each other, you must write you own solution to the exercises.
Homework assignments will be announced on class mailing list and on this Web page. Each homework assignment will have a due date at the time the assignment is announced. Late solutions will not be accepted.
You may also submit your homework solutions through email.
Each student is required to give at least one in-class presentation during the semester. The presentations can be developed by the group, but the presenter will receive an indidual grade for the presentation.
At the completion of the project, each student will turn in a personal journal which describes their personal experience in the group. This journal should be presented in the form of a project diary. In addition to periodically summarizing the activities of the group, you should also include your impressions related to the group interactions (you will probably want to edit this part before you turn it in).