Lecture slides will be posted here week-by-week, in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.

Week 1 (Getting Started)

[Overview] [Teamwork] [Concept Document Requirements]

Reading: McConnel chapter 4. Chapter 5 is also worth a look, although the risks you face differ somewhat from those discussed by McConnel. Note particularly "buying information" as a risk resolution strategy --- something worth considering, even in a very small project.

Week 2 (Requirements; guest lecture Tuesday by Stuart Faulk)

[All slides]

Reading: Sommerville chapters 4,5,6,7. The chapters are short.

Week 3 (Requirements continued; Design)

[Information hiding (examples)] [Notes on Sommerville]

Reading: McConnel pages 415-423 (design for change). Sommerville chapters 12,13,14,15. The Sommerville reading should take us through the next week.

Week 4 (Design continued)

Week 5 (Process)

[Process] (I use a fairly small subset of these slides in lecture)
[Process issues] (includes new slides used on 9 May)

Reading: Chapter 1 (Introduction) in Sommerville, especially sections 1.2 through 1.4. Chapter 3, sections 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 should be useful. McConnell chapter 7.

Week 6 (Human factors, Human/computer interface)

[Human computer interface]

Reading: Sommerville Chapter 17 (User Interface Design).

Recommended readings:

The Design of Everyday Things. Donald A. Norman. Doubleday 1990. (Previously published in 1988 as The Psychology of Everyday Things.)

Programming as if People Mattered: Friendly Programs, Software Engineering, and other Noble Delusions. Nathaniel S. Borenstein. Princeton University Press, 1991.

Week 7

[Performance] (no required reading)

PDF format and troubleshooting

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