CS 544: Distributed Software Systems Development

CS544: Distributed Software Systems Development

Douglas C. Schmidt
Department of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Washington University in St. Louis

Administrivia

Classroom -- Cupples II room 202, Mon/Wed from 4-5:30pm
Lab -- Lapota room 401, Tuesday from 4-7pm
CS544 Newsgroup and newsgroup archives
Programming assignment submission guidelines
Students
TAs:
- Irfan Pyarali -- office hours are Thursday from 1 to 2:30 in Lapota 401.
- Sumedh Mungee -- office hours are Friday from 3 to 4:30 in Lapota 401.

Prerequisites

CS 422 or CS 523 or equivalent
CS 242 or equivalent
Good proficiency in C++ and OO design
Knowledge of how to use email, WWW, and USENET newsgroups

Handouts

The following are electronic versions of my course handouts. Most of these handouts are stored in compressed postscript 4-up on a page. Files ending in .gz are compressed with GNU Zip. To create .gz files use gzip; to uncompress them use gunzip (or gzip -d). You can use your favorite search engine to find the most recent versions of these tools or get them from the University of Texas. In addition, Eric S Rosenthal has donated a perl script that converts the 4-up handouts to 1-up handouts.

Intro Material

In addition, CS544 will have a final project. This project will involve building a substantial distributed software application using one or more of the technologies covered in the programming assignments. To get you started, Raman Kannan has some thoughts and ideas on improving WWW browser capabilities.