What's New | CSCI 4448/6448 — Fall 2008 | Kenneth M. Anderson

Grades Submitted

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:46:24 -0700

Just a quick note: I submitted grades for CSCI 4448 and CSCI 6448 today. I really enjoyed seeing the 13 project demos last Friday. Have a great Winter break!

Demo Times

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:25:45 -0700

All teams have signed up to demo their projects on Dec. 12th! Thanks!

The final demo slots are:

10:00 AM to 10:15 AM: Secret Agency Manager Demo

10:15 AM to 10:30 AM: Forex Trading Tools Demo

10:30 AM to 10:45 AM: Chess Demo

11:00 AM to 11:15 AM: XNA 1 Demo

12:00 PM to 12:15 PM: Tunez Demo

12:15 PM to 12:30 PM: Robo Wars Demo

1:00 PM to 1:15 PM: Checkers Demo

1:30 PM to 1:45 PM: Nemus Demo

2:00 PM to 2:15 PM: Geopardy Demo

1:45 PM to 2:00 PM: XNA 2 Demo

2:30 PM to 2:45 PM: Callahtris Demo

3:30 PM to 3:45 PM: The Guru Demo

3:45 PM to 4:00 PM: Oomp Demo

All demos will be held in ECCS 127 which is located across from the CSEL.

Grades for Semester Project, Part Two

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:57:43 -0700

The grades for part two of the semester project have been posted to the Grades page. I'm pleased to report that all submitted assignments received 50 points. Indeed, I'd like to pass on the first part of the e-mail I received from the grader concerning this assignment:

Every single group did a fantastic job on this! I was quite impressed.

Good job everyone!

Homework 6 Grades

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:01:41 -0700

Grades for Homework 6 have been posted on the Grades page. Due to time constraints, there will be no additional homeworks this semester. Work hard on the last part of your semester project instead!

Lecture 27

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:08:44 -0700

Lecture 27 is now available on the Lectures page.

Need Volunteer: FCQs

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:40:56 -0700

I need a volunteer to administer FCQs for this class at the end of Thursday's lecture. Please send me e-mail if you are interested. Thanks in advance!

Semester Project, Part 3

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:36:25 -0700

Details on the third part of the semester project are now available.

You now have this week and next week to finish your semester project. Please send me e-mail soon to schedule a demonstration of your semester project on Friday, December 12th. I will be available to view demos that day from 9:30 AM to 4 PM. Your demo should only take fifteen minutes.

Any questions? Let me know!

Lectures 25 and 26

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:32:29 -0700

This week's lectures plus the code I reviewed today are now available on the Lectures page. Have a good Fall Break!!

Homework 5

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:48:21 -0700

Grades for Homework 5 have now been posted. The grader should be posting feedback on the moodle for submitted assignments soon. Kudos to the students who received four points on this assignment! I should note that at least one student has received 10 extra credit points from the homework. This same student received a 97 on the midterm, but due to the homework points is receiving a grade as if he had scored 107 on the midterm! There will be one more homework assignment for the semester, providing one last opportunity to pick up extra credit points. Stay tuned!

Lectures 23 and 24

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:26:44 -0700

Lectures 23 and 24 are now available on the Lectures page.

Grades for Part One of the Semester Project

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:27:08 -0700

Grades for Part One of the Semester Project are now available on the Grades page.

Homework 6 Update

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:40:49 -0700

Quick clarification on Homework 6.

The Orc and Knight can move diagonally (NE, NW, SE, SW) along with vertically and horizontally (N, E, S, W).

The Knight can attack squares a-h


 a b c
 d K e
 f g h

The Orc can attack squares a-p


a . b . c
. d e f .
g h O i j
. k l m .
n . o . p

Homework 4 Grades

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:22:31 -0700

Homework 4 grades have been posted to the Grades page. I'm pleased to announce that everyone who submitted a solution to Homework 4 received full marks! Congrats!

New to this update of the grades is a "Total" column that shows you your total score along with your percentage of the number of possible points so far. For now, assume a straight scale: but remember that undergrads will be graded separately from graduate students and that there will likely be a slight curve applied to the undergrads due to the midterm.

Framework Project Grades

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:12:15 -0700

I have updated the Grades page with the grades for the Framework Project. I got tired of waiting for the final nine team evaluations, so those nine students received one negative review, while their teammates received positive reviews. (Thus, students with teammates that did not submit team evaluations did not get penalized.)

Overall, the class did an excellent job on this assignment and you should all be proud! The lowest score on this assignment was a B+!

Homework 6

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:16:15 -0700

Homework 6 is now available. Its the most complicated one to date and so is due in two weeks: Thursday, Nov. 20th at 11:55 PM. Its worth up to 5 extra credit points.

Semester Project, Part 2

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:57:24 -0700

Details concerning the second part of the semester project are now available.

Lectures 21 and 22

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:48:35 -0700

Lectures 21 and 22 are now available on the Lectures page, along with their example source code.

Last Plea for Framework Reviews

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:27:03 -0700

As mentioned in lecture, I would like to release the Framework Project grades tomorrow, but in order to do so, I need the last of the team evaluations. 35 students have sent in evaluations but I need 11 more before I have a complete set. So, please, if you haven't done so, send in your evaluations PRONTO!

Update to Semester Project, Part 1

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:39:39 -0700

I updated the problem statement of part 1 of the semester project to include the following paragraph:

Update: In your document, please be sure to include two additional things: be sure to map the features from your feature list to the use cases in your use case diagram (in the same way they did in the textbook) and also be sure to include a textual justification of your module breakdown. In other words, explain why you picked the modules included in your module breakdown and the purpose they play. Optional: Include an architecture diagram of your system that shows the main components of the system and how they will interact at run-time.

FYI.

Framework Reviews

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:49:34 -0700

We are hoping to have grades for the framework project ready by the end of this week. To do that, we need team evaluations from all students: I now have 22 out of 46 evaluations submitted. So, if you haven't sent in your evaluation yet, please do so today!

Oh, and be sure to vote today!

Lecture 20

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:48:58 -0700

Lecture 20 is now available, along with its example source code.

Twelve Evaluations So Far

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:40:32 -0600

Happy Halloween! Just a quick note: I've received 12 team evaluations so far; I need 46, so please take some time out of your Halloween festivities to send in your team evaluations. If you have positive reviews of your teammates, I only need one to two word reviews ("thumbs up!"). If you have a negative review, then I need a bit more information about what the problem was. Thanks!

Homework 5

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:09:02 -0600

Homework 5 is now available. Its due next Thursday and is worth up to 4 extra credit points!

Team Evaluations

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:30:48 -0600

If you haven't already done so, please send me (via e-mail) your team evaluations for the Framework project. See the Framework Project problem description for details. Thanks!

Lecture 19

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:26:24 -0600

Lecture 19 is now available. It covers our introduction to Design Patterns including the Strategy and Observer patterns.

Framework Presentations

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:31:18 -0600

I've updated the Frameworks page with most of the remaining presentations. I'll post the Prototype and Symfony presentations when I receive them and I'll post the MFC slides next week.

Grades Update

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:59:38 -0600

I have posted an update to the Grades page that reflects all of the changes to midterm scores that occurred after students discussed their midterms with me. Please check to make sure that my spreadsheet matches the grade you received on the midterm.

Framework Presentations

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:53:12 -0600

I have added a section to the website that provides pointers to the framework presentations that are being given in class this week. If you gave a presentation on Thursday and haven't already sent me your presentation, please send me a PDF version of your slides. I hope to collect all thirteen presentations on the Frameworks page.

Homework 4

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:22:51 -0600

Homework 4 is now available on the Assignments page.

Semester Project

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:48:56 -0600

Details of Part 1 of the Semester Project have been posted on the Assignments page.

Framework Presentation Schedule

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:18:35 -0600

Okay, time slots for Thursday framework presentations are now full. I have assigned the remaining teams to Tuesday. Here is the schedule. If your team's framework is listed as "TBA" below, please send me the name of your framework ASAP.

Note: the table below does not necessarily reflect the order we'll use in class on each day.

Day	Framework	Team Members
Tuesday
	Django	Lundby, Okoye, Sikander, Watson
	XNA	Gerhardt, Lucas, Minerva, Roberts
	Echo Web Framework	Callahan, Henrikson, Orin, Trimble
	pygame	Robinson, Seeland, Stout, Meador
	XNA	Getz, French
	gooxdoo	Brooks, Ford, Pack
Thursday
	Windows Forms	Kulkarni, Prazen, Sahasrabudhe, Shanbhag
	Prototype	Chan, Hallesy, Lavallee
	Struts	Alghamdi, Allaire, Woods, Mysore
	WEKA	Grosshans, Koch, Moffatt, Shin
	Papervision 3d	Christofferson, Hierro, Menten, Ananthanarayan
	Symfony	Freese, Shelton, Stein, Greve
	MFC	Chen, Berg, Liu

Framework Presentation Sign-Up

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:26:48 -0600

i have already been contacted by four enterprising teams to sign up for presentations on Thursday of next week. The next three teams to contact me asking me for a Thursday time slot will get it. All other teams will be assigned to Tuesday. Step right up, Thursday time slots are going fast!

Midterm Results

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:59:13 -0600

The grades for the midterm are now available on the Grades page. Here is a breakdown of the results split between undergraduates and graduate students.

Undergraduates: 29 students took the test (out of 29). The average score was 74 out of 113 (65%). The lowest score was 57. The highest score was 102. The most common score (the mode) was 69. The median was 71. Finally, the standard deviation was 12 points.

Graduate Students: 18 students took the test (out of 18). The average score was 85 out of 113 (75%). The lowest score was a 51. The highest score was 108. The mode was 91. The median was 89. Finally, the standard deviation was 14 points.

Please come to class to pick up your exam. I will be discussing the entire midterm today during lecture.

Reminder: Midterm Happening Now

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:07:22 -0600

According to my calculations, three students in this class are not where they should be: namely in class taking the midterm (which started 7 minutes ago)!! If you are one of these students, you better head to ECCR 155 pronto!

Grades Update

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:32:08 -0600

I did an update on the grades page today that now contains all the nicknames that I have received from students either via voicemail or e-mail as of 4:30 PM today. This includes the nicknames that I mentioned in my previous update that I thought I had lost. Currently I have nicknames for all but seven students. If the remaining seven would like to have a nickname so they can see their midterm grade posted on Wednesday night or Thursday morning (i.e. before lecture on Thursday), then send me one via e-mail. Thanks!

Use Case Style Guidelines

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:43:37 -0600

When reviewing for the midterm last Thursday, I had intended to mention that there might be questions on the midterm concerning the use case style guidelines that were covered at the end of lecture 7. My apologies for the oversight, because, it's true, there indeed MIGHT be questions on the midterm concerning those guidelines. :-)

Best of luck with your studying and I'll see you on Tuesday!

Homework 3 Grades

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:37:44 -0600

Grades for Homework 3 have now been posted. I may have lost some nickname information that was recently given to me via voicemail. If you don't see your nickname, please send it to me via e-mail so I can get it into my spreadsheet. Apologies to any students so affected!

Midterm

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:59:19 -0600

Reminder: The midterm for CSCI 4448/6448 will be held this Tuesday from 2 PM to 3:15 PM in ECCR 155.

Lectures 13 and 14

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:57:11 -0600

Lectures 13 and 14 are now available. Sorry for the delay in getting them up on the website.

Fixed Framework Project Due Dates

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:40:43 -0600

I have updated the framework project with the correct due dates.

Lectures 11 and 12

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:39:16 -0600

Lectures 11 and 12 are now available on the Lectures page.

Homework 2

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:54:27 -0600

Grades for Homework 2 have now been posted on the Grades page.

Bad Design Decisions Kill Projects

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:47:06 -0600

A student in the class pointed me at the following article that discusses a project that was recently killed due to bad design decisions:

EA Axes Tiberium For Not Meeting Standards

Midterm

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:12:53 -0600

Just a quick reminder: the midterm for this class will be held on Tuesday, October 14th in class. The test will be closed book, closed notes. We'll review for the midterm next Thursday. The midterm can contain questions on any of the material covered in Lectures 1–14 and on any of the material in Chapters 1–10 of the OO A&D textbook.

Lectures 9 and 10

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:07:31 -0600

Lectures 9 and 10 are now available on the Lectures page.

Team Formation Status

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:45:27 -0600

As of Friday afternoon, I have received information from six teams consisting of 20 students. As a result, there are 28 students who still need to group together into teams. Keep up the good work on utilizing the moodle to self-organize and form the remaining teams as quickly as you can!

Lecture 8

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:02:50 -0600

Lecture 8 and its associated example source code are now available.

Lecture 7

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:10:51 -0600

Lecture 7 (and its example source code) is now available.

C# on the Mac

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:54:31 -0600

For those of you interested in trying out C# and .Net on the Mac, check out the Mono/C# XCode plug-in that is available on Google Code. Thanks goes to Michael Getz for the pointer!

Homework 3

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:15:28 -0600

Homework 3 is now available on the Assignments page of the class website. You have until Thursday, Sept. 25th to work on it and its worth up to 3 points of extra credit.

Homework 1 Grades Updated

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:03:12 -0600

I have posted a slight update to the homework 1 grades on the Grades page. A few more nicknames were waiting for me on my voicemail. I now have all nicknames submitted to my voicemail prior to 4 PM today in my roster and those nicknames now appear on the Grades page. If you don't see your nickname, let me know.

Framework Project Available

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:02:23 -0600

Details concerning this semester's framework project are now available. Please read them and form your teams. As soon as you have a team of 2 to 4 people assembled be sure to send me an e-mail message detailing the members of your team. Please note: this assignment is designed for a team of four people to ensure that responsibilities can be spread evenly over the team. Smaller teams are allowed but will (of course) require more work of each individual team member.

If you need help finding a team, you can use the moodle to post your availability on the student forum. Just click on the button "Add a new discussion topic" to create a new post. Or reply to an existing post.

A two person or three-person team can use this discussion list to advertise that they are looking for new members. If you are not on a team by the end of this week, send a message to Prof. Anderson and he will help get you assigned to a team.

Homework 1 Grades

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:20:15 -0600

I've posted Homework 1 grades on the Grades page of the class website. This list is incomplete because 1) not every student has provided me with a nickname and 2) I have not checked my voicemail recently to pick up any nicknames that were provided after August 29th. I will collect the remaining nicknames tomorrow and update the grades page at that time.

The grader will be posting feedback on your individual homework 1 assignments on the moodle. You should receive an e-mail message when that feedback is available.

Lecture 6

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:59:20 -0600

The slides and example code presented during lecture 6 are now available. Don't forget to check out some of the links on the Ken's Corner slide!

Textbooks On-Line

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:51:40 -0600

Thanks to Jerel for letting me know that both of our textbooks are available on-line for free as long as you access the below site with a CU IP address. (If you are working off-campus, you can get a CU IP address by logging into CU's VPN.)

Head First OO A&D

Head First Design Patterns

Thanks for the pointer!

Lecture 5

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:19:54 -0600

Lecture 5 is now available on the Lectures page, along with its example source code. The Lectures page is now sorted with the most recent lecture listed first.

Fixed Problem with Homework 2

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:10:00 -0600

I have fixed the problem with Homework 2's images not displaying properly. My apologies. If you looked at the assignment already, and found it confusing, take another look!

What's New Banner on Home Page

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:12:50 -0600

I've now added a list of the five most recent "What's New" items on the home page of the class website. This makes the home page just slightly more useful, although the best way to keep track of the latest class news is to subscribe to the site's RSS feed.

Homework 2

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:11:51 -0600

Homework 2 is now available. It will be due next Tuesday by 11:55 PM.

Lecture 4

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:55:59 -0600

Lecture 4 is now available on the Lectures page. I have also posted the example source code that I used during that lecture.

Lecture 3

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:38:36 -0600

Lecture 3 is now available on the Lectures page, as is the multi.py file that was presented in class today.

Nicknames So Far

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:49:59 -0600

Just a gentle reminder to phone in your nicknames. (Details on slide 23 of Lecture 1.)

Here are the nicknames I've received to date:

022787
buffyduck
chiron
delibelly
hexagon
iktomi
lilyjumper
lump
nilla
sami
skyclad
snake
vortex
waronsquirrels
whale
wolfie
xoner
xrjk

My favorite so far is “waronsquirrels”.

Lecture 2

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:28:56 -0600

Lecture 2 is now available on the Lectures section of the website. Also available is a zip file of lecture 2's example source code.

Homework 1

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:18:36 -0600

Homework 1 is now available. See the Assignments section for details. Recall that homeworks are optional in this class.

Lecture 1

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:55:27 -0600

The slides for Lecture 1 are now available.

Structure of Website Complete

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:37:20 -0600

I have finished fleshing out the structure of the class website. Now I will turn my attention to working on the lectures. Note: I will post lectures to the website AFTER I present them in class.

See you next week!

Evaluation Info

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:29:06 -0600

Information on how you will be evaluated for this class has now been posted. Differences from last year's class include the addition of a midterm and a way to earn extra credit over the course of the semester.

Textbook Info

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:18:57 -0600

I've added information about the class's textbooks to the website.

Website Under Construction

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:31:43 -0600

Hi. I'm starting to work on the class website for the Fall 2008 semester. Stay tuned. New information on the class will appear here next week.