CS 291: Software Design Studio

Douglas C. Schmidt
d.schmidt@vanderbilt.edu
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
School of Engineering
Vanderbilt University

Locations

Classroom -- Featheringill Hall 211, MW from 4:25pm to 5:40pm
Office Hours -- Featheringill Hall 226, MW from 2:15pm to 4:25pm
Programming assignment submission guidelines
Students
TA
- Stoyan Paunov <s.paunov@vanderbilt.edu>
- Office Hours -- Featheringill Hall 226, MW 2-3pm and Satursday 2-4pm
Final exam time: Thursday, December 16, 2:00 p.m, FGH 211.

Philosophy

Good design and programming is not learned by generalities, but by seeing how significant programs can be made clean, easy to read, easy to maintain and modify, human-engineered, efficient, reliable, and secure, by the application of good design and programming practices. Careful study and imitation of good designs and programs significantly improves development skills. -- Kernighan and Plauger.

Prerequisites

CS 101 and CS 201
Proficiency in C++ and OO programming
Knowledge of email, WWW, and USENET newsgroups

Handouts

The following are electronic versions of my course handouts.

Intro Material
The CS 291 syllabus is available as HTML in the following sections:
Course Lecture Handouts
1. Course Overview Lecture 1 (8/25/04)
2. Overview of C++ Lectures 2-4 (8/30/04 - 9/1/04)
3. C++ Support for Abstract Data Types (9/8/04 - ...)
4. System Sort Patterns Case Study (10/11/04 - ...)
5. Expression Trees Case Study (11/29/04 - ...)
6. Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Systems (12/01/04 - ...)
Programming Assignments
1. C++ Array class (due Wednesday, September 1st at midnight, revisions due by Monday, September 6th at midnight)
2. Checking for balanced delimiters (part 1 due Sunday, September 12th at midnight, part 2 due Monday, September 20th at midnight, part 3 due Monday, September 27th at midnight)
3. System sort utility (part 1 due Wednesday, October 6th at midnight, part 2 due Wednesday, October 13th at midnight, part 3 due Wednesday October 27th at midnight, part 4 due on November 3rd at midnight)
4. Sort verification utility (part 1 due Monday, November 15th at midnight, part 2 due on Monday November 29th at midnight)

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