cs2220: Engineering Software » David Evans

Fall 2011 Course

David Evans — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:27:42 +0000

The Fall 2011 offering of cs2220 will be taught by Kevin Sullivan and meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:30pm. This website is the Fall 2010 course.

Final Exam Handout

David Evans — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:47:51 +0000

The final exam handout is here: [PDF].

Note: I have corrected the sentence about resources to make it clear that you are not expected to use notes during the exam. I should read: During the exam, you should not expect to use any resources, in particular, you may not use any notes.. Sorry for any confusion this caused!

Project Presentations

David Evans — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:26:37 +0000

Each team with have an opportunity in class Tuesday to present your final project.

You have up to 10 minutes for your presentation. Your presentation should be prepared. There should be a plan for how you will use your time effectively to get the main points across well and how to fit in what you say with your demo.

Teams that do excellent project presentations Tuesday (including a working demo) will not need to submit project reports. You will be notified shortly after class Tuesday if you qualify.

The presentation order is:

James Blanton, Sam Herder, Michael Kalish
Alex Wallace
Jeremy Brown, Klaus Dollhopf, Joseph Featherston, Charles Hern, John Marion
Hanna Oh
Joseph Borja, Erik Lopez, Brian Noh, Jonathan DiLorenzo
Michael Dewey-Vogt
Jiamin Chen, Elisabeth Sparkman, Yixin Sun

Classes 27 and 28

David Evans — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:21:24 +0000

Here are the slides from this week:

Class 27: Exam 2 [PPTX] [PDF]
Class 28: Course Summary [PPTX] [PDF] (including information on project presentations and reports)

Class 26: Interview Questions

David Evans — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:11:06 +0000

There are no slides for this class, but here are some links to resources about software engineering and programming interviews:

Microsoft Interview Questions
Google Interview Stories
Algorithms for Interviews (book by Adnan Aziz and Amit Prakash)
Google Interview Puzzles
Joel on Software’s Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing

Classes 24 and 25, Exam 2

David Evans — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:04:03 +0000

Here are the slides from Classes 24 and 25:

Class 24: Garbage Collection [PPTX] [PDF]
Class 25: Software Disasters! [PPTX] [PDF]

The Exam 2 template is here: exam2.docx.

No Office Hours Thursday

David Evans — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:02:02 +0000

I will not be able to hold my normal office hours this Thursday. If you want to meet with me, please send email to arrange another time (or come to my Wednesday office hours).

Exam 2 Correction

David Evans — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:32:02 +0000

There’s a typo in Question 3a. It should read, “Your solution should not introduce any deadlocks in the code.” (instead of “Your solution to not introduce any deadlocks in the code.”). Sorry for the confusion.

Exam 2

David Evans — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:14:28 +0000

Exam 2 will be handed out Thursday, 18 November and due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, 23 November. It will cover all material in the class through Class 23, but focus primarily on content from Problem Sets 4 and 5.

Topics you should expect to see on the exam include:

Subtyping, Inheritance, Dynamic Dispatch
Behavioral Subtyping rules, substitution principle
Concurrency abstraction
Race conditions, deadlocks
Java Security, bytecode verification, code safety

There may also be questions integrating important ideas from earlier in the class such as specification, data abstraction, validation, and software design.

If there are topics you would like me to review in class Tuesday, send them to me by Monday.

Classes 22 and 23

David Evans — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:07:56 +0000

Here are the slides from this week:

Class 22: Graphical User Interfaces [PPTX] [PDF]
Class 23: Network Programming [PPTX] [PDF]