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BEDS I - "Software Engineering I"

Lecture Notes   Labs   Recommended reading list   Free online book

Software Engineering Lecture schedule and notes.

The slides are based on Sommerville's slides  which have been modified for non-commercial educational purposes only.
The various parts may be delivered in one lecture or may be delivered over a number of lectures, depending on the amount of material to be covered.
Please print this material before the lecture. NOTE: The material in these slides are only a portion of the material presented at the lecture. Attendance at the lecture is still necessary.

Labs

Web based programming

• http://www.w3schools.com
• Web server code: tiny.c
  Compile this code with gcc and palce in the resultant executable file in the same directory as your we pages. When you run the executable you can specify a port for it to accept HTTP requests upon:
  $ ./runweb 2001
  runs the web server on port 2001. To call the webserver from your browser you must use a format like this:
  $ http://MACHINENAME:2001/WEBPAGE
  

C/C++ Labs

The labs will initially focus on C programming and programming tools like gcc, ddd, make, lint, indent and others as appropriate..Software engineering tools will be investigated and used in this environment.  'C' programming langauage and development tools

Homework will normally consist of a number of programming exercises. You must print a copy of your code and subsequently demonstate the code running during the lab. Your code must include a descriptive section [for each program] indicating the Exercise name, Program Name, Author, Date, Description, Usage, Restrictions and Error Handling. An example is shown here

Reading List

The course textbooks are

On a more general note (useful for background material) is a comprehensive software engineering reading list available at http://www.cs.queensu.ca/Software-Engineering/reading.html

Free Online Books

• A good list of free online books is available at http://maththinking.com/boat/computerbooks.html.
• There is also an index at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html -
  Please note that the link towards the bottom of the list is directed at technology related books.