Overview

• Preliminaries.
  • Admin.
  • Upcoming Work.
  • Extra Credit.
  • Questions.
• Quick Course Overview.
• Why This Course?.
• Introductions.
• More Syllabus Stuff.

Preliminaries

Admin

• Welcome back to campus.
• Any activities that would benefit from peer support?
• Attendance. (Who is in this class but not in 321?)
  • MT, UN
• Warning! The Web site for this course is not ready for prime time.
• PSA.

Upcoming Work

• Strengths finder. You should have received an email message.

Good Things to Do

• See the Spike Lee Joint "Do the Right Thing" Saturday at 1pm in Harris

Academic

• CS Table Tuesdays!
• Convo in two weeks! Get a free book from Sarah Purcell and read it beforehand (optional)

Peer

• Visit MH at the PC bar.

Questions

Quick Course Overview

• Work on a medium-sized project (that seems large because we don't spend a lot of time on it).
• For a local client.
• Meeting a non-mission-critical need.
• With guidance from an alumni mentor.

Introductions

We will be working together for the semester. We should know a little bit about each other.

• What do you like to be called
• Pronoun
• Where are you from?
• When you have spare time, how do you like to spend that spare time?
• What will you bring to the class?
  • Knowledge of software design.
  • Rails debugging skills!
  • Documentation skills.
  • Organizational skills.
  • Has done some PM.
  • Can write English
  • Can write code
  • Persistence!
  • Knowledge of software construction (from internship)
  • Experience with some related tools: JavaScript, MySQL, Python, Angular, TypeScript, Ruby, Rails
  • Experience working on a large project created by someone who didn't learn software design
  • Understanding of accessibility
  • Debugging
  • Willingness to say that stuff is crap and should be flushed
  • Knowledge of Agile/Scrum
  • Testing!
  • Hardware
  • Works hard
  • Plays well with others
  • Risk analysis
  • Leadership
  • Positive attitude
  • Sarcasm
  • Resolving conflict
  • Completed projects!
  • Responsibility

More Important Issues

You may think this course is about coding. But it's about much more.

• Working and communicating with other people
  • Peers
  • Clients
  • "Supervisors"
• Estimating and prediction
• Time management
• ...

More Syllabus Stuff

• Schedule (and its structure).
• Expected workload.
• Grading.

Questions?

What are those projects again?

• Resource Portal - Online repository of information (e.g., housing, food, jobs) to support MICA.
• Head Start Notification - Send text messages (in multiple languages, if possible) to parents about classroom issues (e.g., late start)
• Grant Management Application - Receive grants applications. Receive comments on grant applications, support decision making.
• Partnernships for Non-Profits. Help boards find members and members find boards (help volunteers find non-profits and non-profits find volunteers)