INF 502: Software Development Methodologies

Course content for the Fall 2019 offering of INF 502 at Northern Arizona University.

• Meeting time: TuTh 2:20PM - 3:35PM (Bldg 90 - 102)
• Instructor: Igor Steinmacher

Office hours

• My office hours are on Mondays 1:30pm-2:30pm and Fridays 9:00am-10:00am
• Easier: you can reach me on our Slack channel and make this a more interactive course. Join our slack Channel

Important dates

• Last day to drop without a W: September 5
• Midterm exam (tentative): October, 15 - 2:20PM - 3:35PM
• Final exam: Somewhere between Dec 9 and Dec 12

Syllabus

Download Fall 2019 syllabus here

Course Schedule

Everything on this schedule is subject to change based on how the specific student and course needs that emerge. Please stay tuned for changes and assignments that will appear here as the course progresses.

Work is to be submitted via BbLearn whenever not specified differently. When via BBLearn, the deliverable must be in Word or PDF format.

Week	Date.	Content (tentative)	Comments.	Assignments out	Deadline
1	27-Aug	Hello/Intro to Programming languages
	29-Aug	Git/GitHub		HW1	.
2	3-Sep
	5-Sep	Python essentials (kicking Off)
3	10-Sep	Python essentials (basics)	Igor traveling	PA1, HW2	HW1
	12-Sep		Igor traveling
4	17-Sep
	19-Sep			HW3	HW2
5	24-Sep
	26-Sep	Jupyter Notebooks		HW4 (Jupyter)	HW3
6	1-Oct
	3-Oct	Intro to object-oriented development		HW5	HW4, PA1
7	8-Oct
	10-Oct				HW5
8	15-Oct	MID TERM	Igor traveling
	17-Oct	MID TERM Discussion	Igor traveling
9	22-Oct	Agile development: kanban; test-driven development;		HW5 (stories, TDD), PA2
	24-Oct
10	29-Oct				HW5
	31-Oct	Scrapping/webservices/Pandas		PA3, HW6	PA2
11	5-Nov
	7-Nov				HW6
12	12-Nov
	14-Nov	Complexity of algorithms: just a smell		HW7
13	19-Nov	Algorithm design and sorting/searching strategies
	21-Nov
14	26-Nov
	28-Nov	THANKSGIVING
15	3-Dec				HW7, PA3
	5-Dec	Wrap up
16	FINALS