unit I --- Software Development
mon jan 28	Software tools and environments --- course information --- lab I.1 (UML)	readings: --- Case Study: Implementing a Web Based Auction System using UML and Component-Based Programming, by Frederick T. Sheldon, Kshamta Jerath, Young-Jik Kwon and Young-Wook Baik, IEEE Proc. COMPSAC 2002 (26th Ann.Computer Software and Applications Conference) Oxford, England., pp. 211-16, August 26-29, 2002. --- Introduction to OMG's Unified Modeling Language (UML) on-line resources: --- ArgoUML --- Intro to UML tutorial (pdf)
mon feb 4	Software project management --- lecture notes --- lab I.2 (RCS and make)
unit II --- Database Systems
mon feb 11	discussion --- lab II.1 (mysql) --- lab II.2 (mysql and php)	readings: --- Digital libraries and World Wide Web sites and page persistence, by Wallace Koehler, Information Research, 4(4), 1999. --- The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, WWW7 / Computer Networks 30(1-7), pages 107-117, 1998. --- Introduction to Information Systems, excerpt from Chapter 1, by David Whiteley, Palgrave MacMillan, 2004. on-line resources: --- mysql tutorial
mon feb 18	no class (president's day)
mon feb 25	Information models and systems --- lecture notes --- project proposal assignment
mon mar 3	Database systems 1: SQL and MySQL --- lecture notes
mon mar 10	--- project proposals: presentations and discussions
mon mar 17	Database systems 2: MySQL and PHP --- lecture notes
mon mar 24	no classes (college closed)
unit III --- Intelligent Systems
wed mar 26	conversion day (cuny monday) Fundamental issues in intelligent systems --- lecture notes --- project interface demonsrations	readings: --- Intelligent Agents: Software Technology for the new Millennium, by Boi Faltings, Informatik, 1/2000. --- Computing machinery and intelligence, by Alan Turing, Mind:59, pp 433-460, 1950. --- Logical Agents,by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig,Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2nd edition, chapter 7,pp 194-239, 2002. --- Statistical Learning Methods,by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig,Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2nd edition, chapter 20,pp 712-762, 2002. on-line resources: --- Eliza demo
mon mar 31	Agent-based systems and decision-making --- lecture notes
mon apr 7	Knowledge representation --- lecture notes --- project database discussions
unit IV --- Software Engineering
mon apr 14	Software processes --- lecture notes --- project intelligence discussion	readings: --- An Introduction to Software Engineering, by Laurie Williams, OpenSeminar in Software Engineering, 2004. --- Patterns and Software: Essential Concepts and Terminology, by Brad Appleton, http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/docs/patterns-intro.html, 2000. --- Software Testing, by Jiantao Pan, http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/des_s99/sw_testing/, 1999. --- The Power of "What If..." and Nine Ways to Fuel Your Imagination, by Cem Kaner, STQE: Software Testing and Quality Engineering magazine, pp 16-22, Sept/Oct 2003. on-line resources: --- Software Engineering Landscape, by Anthony Aaby --- OpenSeminar in Software Engineering
mon apr 21	no classes (spring break)
mon apr 28	Design patterns and software testing --- lecture notes
mon may 5	last class! --- term project presentations and demonstrations
mon may 12	no class (prof out of town)