Syllabus: COS 470 "Topic with c#"

Description

An overview of the c#.Net, covering language details and applications that can be build with it. We'll incorporate tools/process commonly used in software development.

Details

• Class Times: Tuesday/Thursday 4:10pm to 5:25pm
• Class Location: Payson Smith 306, USM Portland
• Credits: 3
• Dates: 9/3/2019 - 12/13/2019
• Documentation: [github.com/blackboxlogic/Cos470]
• Lecturer: Alex Hennings
  • Contact: [email protected]
  • Office Hours: 3pm - 4pm Tuesday/Thursday in the CS Lab

Things You Need

• Access to a computer with:
  • Visual Studio
• A githib.com account
• Suggestions:
  • Notepad++ is a versatile text editor.
    • JSTools helps with JSON formatting. Plugins -> Plugins Admin -> search JSTools)
  • Postman helps design web requests.
  • A Git client (visual studio works for simple things)

Course Schedule

• 2019/09/03
  • Lecture: Introduction to c#
  • For next class:
    • Complete: Assignment 0: This assignment will NOT be graded, but do it.
    • Read: List
• 2019/09/05
  • Lecture: Managing Data
  • For next class:
    • Read: Dictionary<K, V>
  • Start:
    • Assignment 1: Dollar words (due on 2019/09/12)
• 2019/09/10
  • Lecture: Delegates and Linq
  • Continue working on assignment 1
• 2019/09/12
  • Lecture: Web Calls, References, Tests
  • Assignment 1 is Due
  • Start: Assignment 2: Dollar Addresses
• 2019/09/17
  • Lecture: Git, review, and assignment2
• 2019/09/19
  • Lecture: Object Oriented Stuff
• 2019/09/24
  • Lecture: Regex and Threading
  • Assignment 2 is Due
• 2019/09/26
  • Lecture:
    • Introducing Assignment3
    • Web stuff
  • Start:
    • Assignment 3
    • code review stuff
    • code review things
• 2019/10/01
  • Lecture:
    • MORE API THINGS
• 2019/10/03
  • Lecture: More API stuff
  • Due: Assignment 3 part 1
  • Start: (Assignment 3 part 2)[https://github.com/blackboxlogic/Cos470/blob/master/Assignment3/HaveWeMetReview.md]
• 2019/10/08
  • Lecture: Starting Web Stuff
  • Due: (Assignment 3 part 2)[https://github.com/blackboxlogic/Cos470/blob/master/Assignment3/HaveWeMetReview.md]
• 2019/10/10
  • Lecture: Make our website better
• 2019/10/22
  • Lecture: MORE WEBSITES
• 2019/10/24
  • Midterm Exam
  • Start: Assignment 3 part 3
• 2019/10/29
• 2019/10/31
  • Due: Assignment 3 part 3
• ...
• 2019/12/03
  • Start: Assignment4 Really Good Chess
• ...
• 2019/12/12
  • Due: Assignment4
• 2019/12/17:
  • FINAL EXAM 4:15-6:15pm

Grading

96-100 a 90-95 a- 87-89 b+ 83-86 b 80-82 b- 77-79 c+ 73-76 c 70-72 c- 60-69 d 0-60 f

Assignments 60% of course

• 80% Does your project functionally meet the goals
  • 50% Output is as expected
  • 5% Code is simple
  • 5% Code is well organized
  • 5% Code is styled consistently
  • 5% Program covers reasonable corner cases
  • 5% Exception handling when necessary
  • 5% Algorithm is efficient (uses resources responsibly)
• 20% Use of an organized process
  • 5% Code is in GitHub
  • 5% Assignments are separate branches or repos (when assigned)
  • 5% Provide code review to classmates (when assigned)
  • 5% Respond to code review
• Assignments whose first substantial submission is late will loose 10 points per class. @Blackboxlogic when submitting late work
• Improvements to your assignment (even late ones) will gain back points originally lost for whatever was wrong. @Blackboxlogic when submitting fixes

Tests 40% of course

• Midterm
• Final

Policies

• DO work together if it helps you learn
• DO NOT copy each other's work
• No politics in class