CPSC 210

Software Construction

Welcome!!

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Thanks to many others for the work this course is based on:

Elisa Baniassad, Paul Carter, Felix Grund,
 Reid Holmes, Norm Hutchinson, Gail Murphy, Steve Wolfman, ... and many more!  

Who am I?

Previously taught 103, 107, 110, 121, 211 (210's long-ago predecessor!), 310, 417, ...

• Associate Professor of Teaching at UBC
  (faculty since 2007)
• Three years of industrial software development experience

We are a team of 2 instructors (me and Steve), one course coordinator (Riley) and 25+ amazing TAs! 

Zoom

We are using Zoom for many Help Sessions (= Office Hours)
and a limited remote lecture experience

All lecture sessions will be streamed live on Zoom 💦

• It is creative and challenging...
• It is about tech and people...
• It has far-reaching impact…
• It is for everyone...
• It is both deep and practical...

Course Structure

• Lectures: Prep and watch videos before each lecture!
• Lecture Tickets (5%): online questionnaire before each class
• Labs (10%): 9 lab assignments (~1 lab per week)
• Project (20%): personal project with multiple deliverables
• Exams: two in-term exams (30%) and one final exam (35%)

Piazza

• 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 our initial Piazza post and the "Appropriate Study Habits" section on the course page
• Related industrial knowledge:
  https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask

edX

• All learning material on edX

Github

• Hosting your lab/project/lecture code repositories

PrairieLearn

• Lecture Tickets and Exams

Schedule & Due Dates

Let's quickly check the course page...

Interactive Lectures

• Hands-on "lecture labs" as part of each lecture
• Engage with these exercises - this will help you a lot!
• Prepare for lectures by reviewing videos!

• An opportunity to get creative and 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

• Weekly time to:
  • complete new lab tasks
  • discuss (for a grade!) lab/project submissions with your TA
• Optional this week: Drop in to any lab section or complete Lab 1 on your own time.  See the course page for the due date
• Attendance at your registered lab section is required, starting next week.

Labs

• The focus of this course: object-oriented design (OOD)
• We will use the language Java to illustrate OOD
• The teaching approach will be immersive: you will learn Java in a similar way as a developer would learn it
• ​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?
• Leveraging what we already know is the best approach to learning a new language

OO Design & Java

Q&A