Schedule

Warning! This schedule, like much of the course, is under development and may change significantly.

Week 0
#	Day	Date	Topic	Reading(s)	Lab	Work Due
1	Th	8/24	An introduction to CSC 321 We look at the “big picture” of the course.	No reading	No lab
Week 1
#	Day	Date	Topic	Reading(s)	Lab	Work Due
2	T	8/29	Getting started with Ruby We start to investigate some issues in Ruby.	Introducing Ruby (SaaSbook 3.1-3.4)	No lab	HW 0: Set up accounts HW 1: Getting started with Ruby Introducing Ruby (SaaSbook 3.1-3.4)
3	Th	8/31	Ruby, continued We continue to investigate some issues in Ruby.	Reflecting on Ruby	No lab
Week 2
#	Day	Date	Topic	Reading(s)	Lab	Work Due
4	T	9/5	Getting started with Rails We start thinking about Rails and its infrastructure.	Reading: Getting started with Rails	No lab	Reading: Getting started with Rails (by 8:00 p.m.)
5	Th	9/7	More fun with Rails We experiment with some real Rails installations.	Reading: Software as a Service	No lab	Reading: Software as a Service (by 8:00 p.m.)
Week 3
#	Day	Date	Topic	Reading(s)	Lab	Work Due
6	T	9/12	An introduction to software engineering We consider three models of software engineering and delve more deeply into agile practices	Reading: An introdution to software engineering	No lab	HW 2: Getting started with Rails (by 10:30 p.m.) Reading: An introdution to software engineering (by 8:00 p.m.)
7	Th	9/14	Key ideas - Software as a service and user stories We consider two key ideas in software design (or at least this class’s model of software design): a model of software in the cloud and a mechanism for understanding user requirements.	User stories + Software as a Servcie	No lab	User stories + Software as a Servcie
Week 4
#	Day	Date	Topic	Reading(s)	Lab	Work Due
8	T	9/19	Behavior-driven design (BDD) and Test-driven Development We consider two key ideas in software development and testing, one of which emphasizes high-level functionality and one of which emphasizes procedure-level functionality.	/readings/bdd-tdd	No lab	Behavior-driven design and Test-driven development
9	Th	9/21	Work Time	No reading	No lab
Week 5
#	Day	Date	Topic	Reading(s)	Lab	Work Due
10	T	9/26	Modeling basics We begin to consider issues of modeling data in general.	No reading	No lab	HW 3: Behavior-driven design through Cucumber (by 10:30 p.m.)
11	Th	9/28	Modeling, continued We continue to consider issues of modeling data, in both Rails and in SQL.	No reading	No lab	Modeling
Week 6
#	Day	Date	Topic	Reading(s)	Lab	Work Due
12	T	10/3	Legacy code and the UML We consider a variety of issues related to better design.	No reading	No lab
13	Th	10/5	Design patterns We consider some basic issues pertaining to design patterns	No reading	No lab
Week 7
#	Day	Date	Topic	Reading(s)	Lab	Work Due
14	T	10/10	Software design experiences	No reading	No lab
15	Th	10/12	Wrapup	No reading	No lab	HW 4: Your last project (by 5:00 p.m.)

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