CPSC 210

Software Construction

Welcome!

Who am I?

• Lecturer @
• Engineer @
• 2012 B.Sc. Information Systems 🇩🇪
• 2012+ Software Engineer 👨‍💻
• 2019 M.Sc. Computer Science 🇨🇦

• It is creative and challenging...
• It is about technology and people...
• It has far-reaching impact…
• It is for everyone...
• It never gets boring...

Schedule & Due Dates

Course Structure

• Lectures: prepare and watch videos before each lecture!
• Lecture Tickets (3%): online questionnaire before each class
• Labs (7%): 9 lab assignments (~1 lab per week)
• Project (15%): personal project with multiple deliverables
• Exams: two midterm exams (15% and 20%) and one final exam (40%)

Ed Discussion

• Please use the discussion forum for all kinds of questions
  • Except personal administrative questions that should go to our course coordinator: cpsc210-admin@cs.ubc.ca
• Please have a look at the initial posts titled "Welcome!" and "Posting Etiquette" 
• Related industrial knowledge:
  https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask

Interactive Lectures

• Hands-on "lecture-labs" as part of each lecture
• Engage with these exercises!
  • This will help you a lot with all other components of the course!
• Please prepare for lectures by reviewing videos!

• An opportunity to get creative 🌺 🌹 🌼
• Design an application that is of interest to you
  • And maybe for future employers!
  • Requirements and details will follow soon
• It is entirely your own work!

Term Project

• The focus of this course: object-oriented design (OOD)
• We will use the language Java to illustrate OOD
• The teaching approach will be immersive:
  • Learn Java in a similar way as a developer
• ​We will dive into existing systems and ask ourselves:
  • What's similar to what I already know?
  • What's different to what I already know?
• Leverage what we already know = best approach to learning a new language

OO Design & Java

Q&A