Foundations of Software Engineering (Spring 2025)

• Instructor: Dr Scott Fleming
• Section: COMP-7012-001
• Syllabus
• Canvas
• Skills Assignment Instructions
• Project Instructions

Schedule

Mon 1/20

• M. L. King, Jr. Holiday (No Class)

Wed 1/22 • 🎦 video

• Intro to the Course (slides)
• Course Syllabus Introduced
• Course Homepage Introduced
• Canvas Introduced
• Teams Introduced

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Mon 1/27 • SA1 • 🎦 video

• Skills Assignment SA1 Introduced
• Ruby Basics Activity

Wed 1/29 • SA1 • 🎦 video

• Object-Oriented Programming in Ruby Activity

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Mon 2/3 • SA2 • 🎦 video

• Skills Assignment SA2 Introduced
• HTML (slides)
• HTML Basics Activity

Wed 2/5 • SA2 • 🎦 video

• HTTP (slides)
• Rails MVC (slides)
• SA2-PT Practice Test

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Mon 2/10 • SA3 • 🎦 video

• Skills Assignment SA3 Introduced
• Databases and the MVC Model (slides)
• Model Basics Activity

Wed 2/12 • SA3 • 🎦 video

• How a Basic Webpage Request Is Processed (slides)
• SA3-PT Practice Test

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Mon 2/17 • SA4 • 🎦 video

• How an Index Webpage Request Is Processed (slides)
• Skills Assignment SA4 Introduced
• RESTful Resources (slides)

Wed 2/19 • SA4 • 🎦 video

• ❄️❄️❄️ Asynchronous Remote Class due to Inclement Weather (No In-Person Meeting) ❄️❄️❄️
• SA4-PT Practice Test

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Mon 2/24 • SA5 • 🎦 video

• How New/Create Form Requests Are Processed (slides)
• Skills Assignment SA5 Introduced
• MVC Model Associations (slides)
• Model Associations Activity
• Teammate Requests (Optional) Introduced

Wed 2/26 • SA5 • 🎦 video

• Asynchronous Remote Class (No In-Person Meeting)
• SA5-PT Practice Test

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Mon 3/3 • SA6 • 🎦 video

• Skills Assignment SA6 Introduced
• Version Control with Git (slides)
• Git Basics Activity

Wed 3/5 • SA6 • 🎦 video

• Merging Branches in Git (slides)
• Git Merging Activity

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Mon 3/10

• Spring Break (No Class)

Wed 3/12

• Spring Break (No Class)

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Mon 3/17 • 🎦 video

• Remote Git Repositories and GitHub (slides)
• GitHub Activity

Wed 3/19 • M0 • 🎦 video

• Software Project Introduced
• Project Concepts Introduced
• Milestone M0 Introduced
• Software Requirements (slides)
• Meet Your Team and Get to Work on the User Stories, Scenarios, and Storyboards Activity

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Mon 3/24 • M0 • 🎦 video

• Project Grading Introduced
• Continue User Stories, Scenarios, and Storyboards Activity

Wed 3/26 • M0 • 🎦 video

• Continue User Stories, Scenarios, and Storyboards Activity

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Mon 3/31 • M0 • 🎦 video

• Individual Activity: Model Class Diagram Activity
• Team Activity: M0 Model Design Diagram Activity

Wed 4/2 • M0 • 🎦 video

• Software Engineering Process (slides)
• M1 Pull Request Plans Activity

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Mon 4/7 • M1 • 🎦 video

• M0 Teammate Reviews Introduced
• Milestone M1 Introduced
• Project Workflow Instructions Introduced
• Project Workflow Activity

Wed 4/9 • M1 • 🎦 video

• Controller Testing Activity

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Mon 4/14 • M1 • 🎦 video

• M1 Demo Video and Report Introduced
• Controller Testing Activity 2

Wed 4/16 • M1 • 🎦 video

• Software Testing (slides)
• Controller Testing Activity 3

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Mon 4/21 • M2 • 🎦 video

• Milestone M2 Introduced

Wed 4/23 • M2 • 🎦 video

• Model Inheritance and Generalization (slides)

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Mon 4/28 • M2 • 🎦 video

• Software Design Patterns (slides)

Wed 4/30 • M2 • 🎦 video

• M2 Live In-Class Demo Session Introduced

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Mon 5/5 • M2

• Exams Week (No Class)

Wed 5/7 • M2

• ⚠ In-Class Project Demo Session ⚠
• Exams Week—Special Meeting Time: 10:00–noon
• Attendance required!