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SE 455 Software Development Methods

Instructor:	Marc Mengel
Location:	Naperville Campus
E-mail:	mengel@fnal.gov
Phone:	(630) 548-9378
Fax:	(630) 548-1963
Office Hours:	Thursday 5:15-6:00p.m., 9:15-9:55p.m.

Prerequisites:

CSC 447 Programming Language Concepts (in C++), and/or
SE 430 Object-Oriented Analysis and Modeling

Textbooks:

Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides, Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, 1995. (required)
Grady Booch, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications, 2/ed. Benjamin/Cummings. 1994.
( Supplementary text, strongly recommended)
Stanley B. Lippman, C++ Primer, 2ed. Addison-Wesley, 1991.
( Reference)
Notes and supplementary materials to be handed out in class.

Grading:

40% -- Course Project: Object oriented analysis, design, and implementation
Due: Nov. 13
30% -- Midterm written exam
Due: Oct. 16
30% -- Final term paper
Due: Nov. 20

Scale:

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|  A |  A-|  B+|  B |  B-|  C+|  C |  C-|  D+|  D |  D-|  F   |
|100 |93  |90  |87  |83  |80  |77  |73  |70  |67  |63  |60...0|
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Resources:

Sample Project Titles
CASE tool links
Recommended readings
Source Code you can reuse
Lecture notes (written by Dr. Jia) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.