CPSC 210

Software Construction

About Me

We are a team of 2 instructors (Firas, Paul), one course coordinator (Taryn) and 26 amazing TAs! 👨‍💻🧑‍🏫👨🏻‍🏫

About Me

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 in-term exams (15% and 20%) and one final exam (40%)

Software Engineering is awesome!

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

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

About this Course

This course will give you a glimpse into the world of software development. The course split into four parts, each class meeting will be on a topic from one of these parts

Basics: Get up to speed with Java, the editor, data structures, etc.

Abstraction: Reduce code complexity and avoid duplication.

Construction: Tools and techniques to build resilient programs.

Design: Software design principles, maintainability and readability

Schedule & Due Dates

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Ed Discussion

Please use the discussion forum for all kinds of questions
- Except personal administrative questions that should go to 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

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Ed Discussion

Let's do a quick demo and make sure everyone is on Ed Discussion!

edX

All learning material on edX

PrairieLearn

Lecture Tickets, Exam Practice, Labs 3-9

Github

Hosting your source code repositories for Lab 1+2 and the project

Course Material

Interactive Lectures

Hands-on "lecture-labs" as part of each lecture
Engage with these exercises - this will help you a lot!
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!
- Some requirements and details will follow
It is entirely your own work!

Term Project

Q&A

Are you ready...?

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