Capstone Seminar

Instructor: Doug Lea
Class time: TBA
Office/Lab hours. Normally every day 11-12
Prereqs: CSC385

Overview

Conception, specification, design, implementation, evaluation, and presentation of a software project; along with topics in support of selected projects. Note: With approval, the project may be a prototype or component to be extended and completed in CSC 496, and may involve multiple students, each with a well-defined role. Software Engineering majors taking this course are expected to have completed all other SE major requirements.

Topics

Class meetings alternate between the following. Normally (with exceptions as needed) student presentations are scheduled on alternate weeks, alternating with weeks of topic coverage.

Review and extension of software engineering process
Technical presentations on methods, tools, and techniques applicable to one or more projects

Resources

Course and project materials are on google drive

Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will demonstrate ability to:

Propose, specify, design, implement, and evaluate a significant software project (system, application, or component).
Communicate ideas to developers and others, both orally and in writing, and iteratively improve software and documentation based on review feedback.

Requirements

Subject to minor change. All graded on Pass/Fail basis.

The project, managed with a version control system allowing incremental updates, with artifacts including scheduling, written requirements, impact, and design documentation and evaluation, along with a final written self-evaluation.
Regular (normally biweekly) presentations on project status and progress, along with review of associated milestone artifacts.
Process, requirement, design, and code reviews of other student presented work.
Usability testing conforming to Campus Human Subject requirements.
A tutorial presentation of a new software development topic encountered in the project (for example, a web framework).
At least one oral or poster presentation to a general audience (at Quest when possible), along with finals-week open-audience summary presentation.