CSC 485E + SENG 480B, 2016, Fall Semester
This course aims to give students the tools and skills to rapidly develop and transform innovative ideas (of their own choosing) into working projects utilizing advanced mobile, social, cloud, and web technologies. In particular, students will experience the style of development activity that is common in a new startup company. The project based course will be augmented by a series of lectures to accelerate learning with new web technologies, product design, agile development practices, user interface design, and project management. During the term, students will work in teams of 5 students. Each team will be closely mentored by several staff members (including the instructors and one or more members from industry). Students will gain valuable technical skills and experience working in small teams, while facing real-world challenges that include a tight schedule, hard deadlines, and self directed learning.
Projects will include designing and developing a live web system. Each team will also maintain a web page with project documentation and design documents.
See course requirements and student testimonials.
Classes will be on Fridays 1:30-4:20 at HHB 110:
(Tentative schedule, slides are in the resources section)
| Date | Meeting agenda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 09/09/2016 | Introduction (Alexey), How to build a software product, Standing on the shoulders of giants, Demo of past projects (guest: Carlene Lebeuf), Forming teams |
| 2 | 16/09/2016 | Startup Slam invitation (Noah Warder), Web development overview, Cloud computing services (Alexey), Mobile development overview (Greg), UI/UX overview (Peggy) |
| 3 | 23/09/2016 | Team work, GitHub, and APIs (Ian), [Project proposal presentations](presenting your ideas.md) |
| 4 | 30/09/2016 | Guest talks (TBA) |
| 5 | 14/10/2016 | [Milestone 1 presentation](milestone 1 - proof of concept.md) - Proof Of Concept |
| 6 | 21/10/2016 | Team stand-up meeting, Software Management for people who just want to get stuff done (Cliff), Guest talk (TBA) |
| 7 | 28/10/2016 | Guest talks (TBA) |
| 8 | 04/11/2016 | [Milestone 2 presentation](milestone 2 - release candidate.md) - Public live BETA |
| 9 | 25/11/2016 | [Milestone 3 presentation](milestone 3 - public beta.md) - Release Candidate |
| 10 | 02/12/2016 | TBA |
| 19/12/2016 | [Final submission](final submission.md) (by email, no meeting) |
Please note: this is a tentative schedule!
Mentoring Staff:
- Alexey Zagalsky
- Margaret-Anne Storey
- Cliff McCollum
- Ian Bull
- Gregory Schier
- Eirini Kalliamvakou (Teaching Assistant)
Alumni mentors: Arie van Deursen
Teams and Projects:
View current and past [teams and projects](teams and projects.md).
Reception Hour: By appointment. Friday 11:00am-12:00pm at ECS 617 (please send an email to set a meeting)
Contact email: [email protected]
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This doesn't include the students' projects, which are hosted on separate repositories and each have their own license.
