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CS
501 Administration |
Lectures: | Tuesday and Thursday 1:25-2:40 p.m., Olin 255 |
Instructor: | William Arms, wya@cs.cornell.edu, Upson 5159, 255-3046 |
Instructor's Assistant: | Rosemary Adessa, rosemary@cs.cornell.edu, Upson 5147, 255-9555 |
Instructor's Office Hours: | Tuesday 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., Thursday 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. or contact Rosemary Adessa to schedule an appointment |
Recitations: | Wednesday 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., Phillips 219 |
Teaching Assistant 1: | Matthew Harris, mharris+501@cs.cornell.edu |
Teaching Assistant 2: | Megha Batra, batra@cs.cornell.edu |
Teaching Assistant 3: | Gilbert Rivera, rivera@cs.cornell.edu |
The Teaching Assistants do not have scheduled office hours but are available to help you by email. Please send all message about the course to: cs501@cs.cornell.edu. Messages to this addresses are forwarded to the Instructor and all Teaching Assistants.
Urgent notices about the course are posted on the home page of this web site. Check the page regularly for current information.
The preliminary course syllabus is posted on the syllabus page of this web site. It has the schedule of assignments, discussion classes and quizzes. The discussion classes and the quizzes are within regularly scheduled class times. Three of the fours assignments include group presentations. Note that the syllabus is subject to change as the course progresses.
The course textbook is: Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence, Software Engineering Theory and Practice, second edition. Prentice- Hall 2001. Before each discussion class you are expected to read part of the book and come to the class prepared to discuss it.
There is a web site associated with this book at http://www.cs.umd.edu/~sharip/swebook/.
The course is built around four major projects assignments, three of which include presentations. These assignments will include both group work and individual work. In addition, there will be weekly discussion classes and several quizzes. The weightings given to these components are expected to be as follows, but these weightings may be changed:
Individual project assignments | 20% |
Group project assignments | 40% |
Discussion classes | 20% |
Quizzes | 20% |
William Y. Arms
(wya@cs.cornell.edu)
Last changed: January 21, 2002