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- Instructors:
- Prof. Pablo Frank-Bolton
- Prof. Rahul Simha.
- Elyse Nicolas.
- Chris Toombs.
- Instructor emails:
enicolas AT gwu.edu - Writing-in-the-Disciplines (WID) TA: Sukshma Vedere (vedere @)
- Time/place:
- Meeting time #1: Tuesdays 2.15-5.00, T-402
- Meeting time #2: Wednesdays 6.10-8.40, T-201 or COR-207
- NOTE: we might change the room for Wednesdays
- Office Hours:
- Prof. Frank-Bolton: TBA
- Prof. Simha: 5:00 - 6:00, Tuesdays, SEH 4560
- Elyse: send email to set up an appointment
- Prerequisites: See undergraduate curriculum.
- Official catalog description: Planning, design, and construction of the senior design project . Economic analysis of the project. Application of software engineering principles, including software requirements, specification, requirements engineering, reuse, documentation, verification/validation, testing, configuration management. Report writing and presentations.
- Informal description: You will learn a great deal, pick up important job/interview skills, and develop pride in completing a challenging project.
- Specific learning outcomes:
- Learn key elements in the development of a significant year-long computer science project: planning, specification, design, economic analysis, and implementation.
- Understand and apply concepts from software engineering to the project: requirements, specification, requirements engineering, reuse, documentation, verification and validation, testing, configuration management
- Learn to write about and make presentations about important aspects of the project: the case for launching the project, status reports, design, and implementation plan.
- Demonstrate a working project.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how knowledge and skill in computer science courses played a role in the project.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how continuing education can contribute to career development.
- Textbook: There is no official textbook. Readings will be recommended where appropriate.
- Programming load: The course will be fairly programming-intensive, and just intensive in general. If you are taking TWO OTHER programming-intensive courses, you could be in for a rough semester. Stop by and discuss the issue with the instructor.
- Coursework and grading: See the logistics page.
- Assignment submission and late work policy:
- All reports, presentations and such will be submitted via your project website.
- Points will be taken off for late submission, approximately one letter-grade for each 24-hour period after the due-date. These points will not not be pro-rated hourly. Thus, if something is due 5pm Oct 19th, a submission at 5.05pm Oct 19th drops a letter grade.
- The submission time will be determined by the upload time on the project website.
- If you're seeking an extension because you've been ill and have a letter from a doctor, come by and see us about it.
- Academic Integrity policy:
- In this course, you will be expected to work on all assigned coursework by yourself, unless otherwise specified by instructions on this site. If you have any questions whatsoever regarding these policies, see us during office hours.
- You may not, without permission from the instructor, exchange course-related code with anyone (including anyone not registered in the course), or download code for use in your coursework, or use material from books other than the textbook. Likewise, you may not look at anyone else's code or show your code to anyone else. Protect your work: for example, be careful not to leave your printouts around.
- If you use material in your assignments that are from outside the course material, then you should be prepared to explain that material. The instructors and TAs reserve the right to question you on your use of extraneous material. Failure to answer such questions might be viewed as grounds for an integrity violation.
- The Academic Integrity Code will apply to this course. Please read through the code carefully.
- Penalties for violating the code or the policies described here include failing this course, and are elaborated in the Academic Integrity Code.
- Late policy: As such, the standard university late policy will apply to most deliverables. That is, if you have a valid reason, such as a medical issue, then a late submission is acceptable if discussed with the instructor. However, in this course, there are some deliverables that occur at fixed dates, such as the presentations. For the presentations, you absolutely need to be there for the final presentation and the SD Final Day. For presentations 1-4, we will take the best three scores and count those towards the final grade.
- If you have a disability that may effect your participation in this course and wish to discuss academic acommodations, please contact us as soon as possible.