Announcements

• Congratulations at the end of a quarter of tremendous learning!
• The mailing list has instructions on how to view the latest peer reviews and how useful others rated your peer reviews for them.

Course Materials

• Required Books
  • Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fullfillment, George Leonard, Plume, 1992.
  • The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, Addison-Wesley, 2000.
  • Agile Software Development, Alistair Cockburn, Addison-Wesley, 2001.
• Course Documents
  • Course Schedule (tentative, subject to changes)
  • Grading Rubric
• Assignments and Due Dates
  • Journaling
    • In class, daily
  • Reflective Essays
    • See Course Schedule.
    • Submitting your essay
  • Portfolios
    • Due before class time in weeks 4 (1 item), 7 (3 items), and 10 (6 items). (see Course Schedule)
  • Peer Reviews
    • Due before class time on the Mondays of weeks 4, 6, 8, and 10.
  • Final Exam
    • Due in class on Mar 15.
• Project
  • Your wiki web
  • gBall v1 presentation from Monday, Jan 12
• Lecture Notes
  • Team Conversations (ask David for a copy)
  • Introduction to Use Cases and Writing Effective Use Cases (by Dr. Dan Rawsthorne)
  • A Brief Comment about What It Means to Be an Engineer
  • Speech Acts
• Readings
  • Essay by Douglas Hofstadter
  • Things They Would Not Teach Me of in College: What Microsoft Developers Learn Later (by Eric Brechner; invited talk to OOPSLA 2003)
  • Good Enough Quality - Beyond the Buzzword (by James Bach)
• Anonymous Feedback Form
  • You can anonymously send comments to the course staff by filling out this form.
• Mailing List Archive