UCLA Computer Science 188 Lecture 3, Spring 2016.
Advanced Software Construction

Course objective: Turn the student into a software developer and toolsmith.

• CCLE
• Core class material news
• Syllabus
• Homework
• Resources for oral presentations and written reports
• Grading

Instructor: Paul Eggert, Boelter 4532J. Office hours are Mondays 10:00–11:00 and Tuesdays 14:00–15:00.

Teaching assistant:

• Rebecca Correia <rebecca.correia@cs.ucla.edu>. Office hours are TBD in Boelter 2432.

Lecture, 4 hours; discussion, 2 hours; outside study, 6 hours.

Prerequisites: Computer Science 35L, 111, and 131.

Construction, deployment, and operation of complex software systems. Development platforms and environments, configuration, packaging, modularization, integration, computing frameworks, clouds and virtualization. Case studies can range from classic techniques such as function libraries and state machines to more-recent approaches such as collaboration methods and cluster processing engines. Letter grading.

Related Computer Science Curricula 2013 knowledge areas:

• SDF/Development Methods
• SE/Tools and Environments
• SE/Software Design
• SE/Software Construction
• SE/Software Verification and Validation
• SE/Software Evolution
• SE/Software Reliability
• SF/Cross-Layer Communications
• SF/Parallelism
• PBD/Introduction
• PBD/Web Platforms

Related knowledge areas in the IEEE Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, Version 3.0 (SWEBOK V3.0), 2014:

1. Software Design
2. Software Construction
3. Software Testing
4. Software Maintenance
5. Software Configuration Management