Agenda

What’s covered each week in-class, including links to slides and course content.

Week 01: Introduction

Course overview; how to form project teams and setup your project.

Wed Lecture

• Welcome to the course and what to expect! (20)
  • Review the course website
• Teamwork and how to work together (23)
  • sample team contract

You will have time at the end of class to meet people and form teams.

Fri Lab

• Form a Team to register your team
• Setup Project to create your GitLab project space, and add initial content
• Documentation practices that you will use through the course

This is another chance to meet people! If you have a team, you can work on these tasks.

Week 02: Requirements

Structure of a software project; defining and documenting requirements.

Wed Lecture

• Course registration & team formation - checking in
• Software engineering and running a software project. (47)
• Determining requirements for a project. (38)

Fri Lab

• Review the course project requirements in more detail.
• Review the project proposal milestone and discuss grading.
• How to track your project in GitLab.
• How to manage individual work and what to track.

Week 03: Learning Kotlin

How to write programs in Kotlin! Installing the development toolchain.

Wed Lecture

• Team Formation - complete your project setup ASAP
• Kotlin 1: Introduction to Kotlin (40)
• Kotlin 2: Object-Oriented Kotlin (20)
• Kotlin 3: Functional Kotlin (20)

Fri Lab

• Installing the development toolchain
  • IDE installation; JDK version and installation; Plugins
  • Opening sample projects; Running and debugging
• Git branching and managing feature branches
  • Demonstrate the GitLab workflow

Week 04: Architecture

How to structure programs to meet requirements. Build systems and dependencies.

Wed Lecture

• Software architecture (38)
• Build systems & Gradle (28)
  • Creating a Gradle project for your team
  • Managing project dependencies e.g., libraries and plugins, shared projects.

Fri Lab

• Project proposal presentation is due in-class, see demo times

Week 05: Testing

Writing tests and test-driven development.

Wed Lecture

• Testing (25)
• Sprint 1 Kickoff (6)
  • Sprint 1 Requirements

Fri Lab

• Pair programming for fun and profit.
• mm-console demo

Week 06: User Interfaces

Building graphical user interfaces with Compose.

Wed Lecture

• Graphical user interfaces (56)

Fri Lab

• Sprint 1 demo is due in-class, see demo times

Week 07: Reading week

Wed Lecture

• No lecture!

Fri Lab

• No lab. Nothing is due. Enjoy the week!

Week 08: Platforms

Desktop and Android functionality.

Wed Lecture

• Building desktop applications (45)
• Building mobile applications (47)

Fri Lab

• mm-desktop demo
• mm-android demo

Week 09: SQL databases

Designing and using a SQL database for local data.

Wed Lecture

• Data representation (25)
• Databases (70)

Fri Lab

• Sprint 2 demo is due in-class, see demo times

Week 10: Web services

How to pull and integrate data from a remote web service.

Wed Lecture

• Networking: TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS
• Web services (27)
• Refactoring (21)

Fri Lab

• Building a multi-service application. Dependency injection & mock testing.

Week 11: Concurrency

How to write concurrent code.

Wed Lecture

• Concurrency (54)
  • Error-Handling - exceptions, exceptions and error-handling w. coroutines
  • Flow, Stateflow, SharedFlow

Fri Lab

• Sprint 3 demo is due in-class, see demo times

Week 12: Packaging

How to package and/or containerize your application for deployment.

Wed Lecture

• Containerization

Fri Lab

• Q&A

Week 13: Wrapup

Final Q&A.

Wed Lecture

• Review of final submission guidelines
• Post questions on Piazza and we’ll address them in-class.
• No formal lecture.

Fri Lab

• Sprint 4 demo is due in-class, see demo times

Week 14: Final Release

Tues is the last day of classes, so there are no lectures or labs this week.

Your final software release is due by Tues Dec 2 @ 6:00 PM