CS 251: Intermediate Software Design

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

Locations

Classroom -- Featheringill 136, MW from 3:10 to 4:25pm.
Office Hours -- Featheringill Hall 226, Monday and Wednesday from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Programming assignment submission guidelines
TAs
- Krzysztof Zienkiewicz krzysztof.k.zienkiewicz@Vanderbilt.Edu. Office Hours -- Featheringill Hall 226, Monday and Wednesday 1:30-3:00pm, Tuesday and Thursday 12:30-2:00pm, and Friday 2:00-4:00pm.
- William Chappell william.t.chappell@Vanderbilt.Edu. Office Hours -- Featheringill Hall 226, Tuesday and Thursday from 10am to 2pm.
Final exam time: Thursday, April 29th, 2-5pm, FGH 136.

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 251 syllabus is available as HTML in the following sections:
Course Lecture Handouts
1. Course Overview (Jan 13th)
2. Overview of C++ [4-up or 2-up] (Jan 18th, Jan 20th, Jan 25th, and Jan 27th)
3. Overview of the STL [4-up or 2-up]
4. Overview of Design Patterns
Programming Assignments
1. C++ Array class (due Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at midnight) [shells]
2. Enhanced C++ Array class (due Thursday, Feb 4th, 2010 at midnight) [shells]
3. Queue classes (part 1 due Wednesday, February 17th and part 2 due Wednesday, February 24th) [shells]
4. Tree Traversal program (part A [shells] due Thursday, March 18th at midnight, part B [shells] due Wednesday, March 31st at midnight, part C [shells] due Wednesday, April 14th at midnight, and part D [shells] due Wednesday, April 28th at midnight)

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