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Topic | Readings due | Individual HW due by 8 AM | Resources | Team Projects due by 8 AM |
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M 9 Jan
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Introduction Team Forming |
New Blog Entries of 500+/- words Required before each class
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in class exercise: Team Intro team details by hand including Team Name and member info |
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W 11 Jan
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Open Source Intro | TOS Chp 1 TOS Chp 2 read resource materials |
1) Create public, professional blog for this course at Blogger or Wordpress 2) Join class Wiki and list your name in lastName- alphabetical order hyperlinked to your blog 3) Register for POSSCON discount = student blog confirmation/report/plans |
wikis blogs planets listservs |
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F 13 Jan
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Open Source Issues | SD Preface and Chp 1 |
TOS Exercise 2.4.4 |
Setup Team wiki (after Dr. Bowring gives go-ahead ) on class Wiki |
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| M 16 Jan | Martin Luther King Holiday | ||||
| W 18 Jan | Team Reports | TOS Chp 3 SD Chp 2 |
blog | 1) Select three H/FOSS project candidates for your team 2) Publish initial findings about projects and rank your choices on team wiki |
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F 20 Jan
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Communicating | SD Chp 3 read resource materials |
1) Select an IRC client and join the channel for your Team project; peruse the history and listen to current traffic; blog about your experiences 2) Join the electronic mail list and/or newsgroup for your team project; select an interesting thread and explore it; blog about your experiences |
IRC Tutorial IRC HowTo |
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| M 23 Jan | Team Reports | Subversion Book (Chp 1-4; A) | blog | Select your project 1) Publish a full report on your selected project, its members, history, etc. on the team wiki 2) Publish your ideas for contributing to this project |
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| W 25 Jan | Personal Reports | TOS Chp 4 |
Install subversion on your own machine (suggest you install Ubuntu using Virtualbox); blog about experiences |
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| F 27 Jan | Get and build the Code | TOS Chp 5 |
Do Freeciv example in Chapter 5 publish experience report on blog |
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| M 30 Jan | Get and build the Code | blog | fyi: 10 New Open Source Projects | Download project code Build project code Install project publish experience report |
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| W 1 Feb | Personal Reports | The Cathedral and the Bazaar | blog your reflections about The Cathedral and the Bazaar | ||
| F 3 Feb | Personal Reports | chosen article | blog your reflections on the article you chose from Software or CoACM magazines | ||
| M 6 Feb | Testing and Debugging the Code | blog | Select and describe one bug; find the bug in the code; describe how you will fix and test the bug; publish report | ||
| W 8 Feb | Testing and Debugging the Code | TOS Chp 6 |
Do exercises in 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7; blog experience report | ||
| F 10 Feb | Fixing the Code | TOS Chp 7 |
Do exercises in 7.2.2, 7.8, 7.9; blog experience report | ||
| M 13 Feb | Team Reports | blog | Fix the bug and submit your fix to the project; publish report | ||
| W 15 Feb | Software Architecture | SD Chp 4 | blog | ||
| F 17 Feb | Working with Code: Refactor and Re-Test | SD Chp 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 | SD Exercises 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 (requires planning and getting software example); blog experience report | ||
| M 20 Feb | blog | 1) Choose a bug or set of bugs or an improvement or set of improvements that your team will focus on for the rest of the semester and which you will officially submit to your chosen project; publish report 2) Produce a timeline for the rest of the semester, ending with a presentation during the period scheduled for the final; publish report |
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| T 21 Feb | 6th Annual Alumni Symposium - Please register and attend ! | ||||
| W 22 Feb | Working with Code: Debugging and Extending | SD Chp 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 | SD Exercises 5.7, 5.8 (requires planning and getting software example); blog experience report | ||
| F 24 Feb | Explaining the Code | TOS Chp 8 | Do exercises in 8.1.1, 8.4; blog experience report | ||
| M 27 Feb | Team Reports | blog | Publish your progress and what you plan to have done for 12 March, which is the class Monday (after break!!) | ||
| W 29 Feb | Reflection and Review | Explore http://opensource.com/ Read at least two medium length articles from the site and blog about what you learned and your response to the articles. Compare and contrast the articles if appropriate. |
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| F 2 Mar | TEST #1 | ||||
| M 5 Mar | Spring Break | ||||
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| M 12 Mar | Team Reports | blog | Publish your progress relative to your planned timeline. | ||
| W 14 Mar | blog | ||||
| F 16 Mar | blog | ||||
| M 19 Mar | Team Reports | blog | Publish your progress relative to your planned timeline. | ||
| W 21 Mar | SD Chp 6 | blog | |||
| F 23 Mar | Do exercises 6.1 - 6.4; blog experience report | ||||
| M 26 Mar | Team Reports | Select 3 presenters from the POSSCON schedule for the day(s) you will attend. Your goal is to meet them and ask them some prepared as well as impromptu questions; Blog your plans ahead of your visit and then plan to blog about your experiences; There are several coffee breaks and a lunch each day at which you can approach your subjects !! | Publish your progress relative to your planned timeline. | ||
| W 28 Mar | POSSCON Wednesday and/or Thursday (one day required, two recommended) : click here for Dr. Bowring's presentation details; blog |
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| F 30 Mar | POSSCON wrapup | blog about POSSCON | |||
| M 2 Apr | Team Reports | blog | Publish your progress relative to your planned timeline. | ||
| W 4 Apr | SD Chp 7 | blog | |||
| F 6 Apr | Do exercises 7.1 - 7.3; blog experience report | ||||
| M 9 Apr | Team Reports | blog | Publish your progress relative to your planned timeline. | ||
| W 11 Apr | SD Chp 8 | blog | |||
| F 13 Apr | Do exercise 8.1; blog experience report | Posters Due to SSM | |||
| M 16 Apr | Team Reports including posters | blog | Publish your progress relative to your planned timeline. | ||
| W 18 Apr | Personal / Pair Presentations of work in Chapters 6, 7, 8 | Jeff, David, Jason, Ginny, Josh, Trevor, Nick, Matthias | blog | Pair programming I | |
| T 19 Apr | School of Sciences and Mathematics Research Poster Session | Author Information | |||
| F 20 Apr | Personal / Pair Presentations of work in Chapters 6, 7, 8 | Ben, Casey, James R., James J.,Tatiana, Bryan, Matt,Chad | blog | ||
| M 23 Apr | Personal / Pair Presentations of work in Chapters 6, 7, 8 | Jennifer, Mariane, Richard, Scott, Stephen, Carla&Erin, Julie, Brad | Create a PDF from your blog and email it to Dr. Bowring by 8 AM: [lastName]_462_2012_blog.pdf
Turn in team self-evaluations byhand. |
Publish your progress relative to your planned timeline. | |
| W 2 May | FINAL PRESENTATIONS 8 -11 Tate 202 : be sure to check out equipment before the event! | ||||