CS 440 Fall 2011

"Current" Events

New material is added here first, and later moved elsewhere or removed entirely as it becomes old or obsolete. Some information is considered sufficiently important to never expire.

• Final Exam - Thursday 8 December, 10:30 - 12:30 P.M., Lecture Center F3
• Final Project Reports and Demonstrations - Due Friday 2 December as an attachment e-mailed to i440@cs.uic.edu by 8:00 P.M. Friday Evening. Two Page Summaries to be e-mailed by 10:00 A.M. Please also submit a CD or DVD containing copies of ALL the files you generated during the semester for my archives, either on Friday or at the final exam.
  • Schedule of Demonstrations
• Midterm Exam II - Rescheduled from Friday November 11 to Monday November 14 to avoid conflict with PhD Qualifiers - Good Luck!
  • Coverage will include through the material on Testing, comprehensive.
  • This exam will be held in our normal classroom.
  • ( Note: Testing plan still due Friday November 18th. )
• Design Memo - Due Wednesday 2 November as an attachment e-mailed to i440@cs.uic.edu by 8:00 P.M. Wednesday evening.
• Testing Memo - Due Friday 18 November as an attachment e-mailed to i440@cs.uic.edu by 8:00 P.M. Friday evening.
• Requirements Memo - Due Friday 14 October as an attachment e-mailed to i440@cs.uic.edu by 8:00 P.M. Friday evening.
• Programming Resources - Including Volere, IceScrum, RCS, VMware, Ubuntu, and more
• The Volere Web Site has free downloads of the specification template and the atomic requirement template, a.k.a. "shell" or snow card. Academic users ( i.e. students and teachers ) are exempt from the $50 requested donation, but you should be good enough to register your download(s) with your real contact information.
  • Word Format Template
  • PDF Format Template
• John Bell's Home page, including office information and links to current schedule.
  • John Bell's Fall 2011 Schedule
• TA 's Web Page
• Course Policies - Includes instructor information and original planned schedule.
• Questionnaire - Used for group formation.
• Microsoft Software Program:
  • Dale Reed's Microsoft Software Program page
  • MSDNAA Direct Web Site:
    1. Go to https://msdn01.e-academy.com/uic_cs
    2. Your login name is your CS e-mail address ( including the "@cs.uic.edu" ) This may be a temp account if you are enrolled in CS classes but are not a CS major.
    3. Your password should have been mailed to you at the beginning of the semester. ( To your CS account. ) If you need them to e-mail it again, there is a button on the page to do that.
• ACM Web Site
  • Tutoring
• Linux Users Group ( LUG ) Web Site

Course Notes Pages

Homework Documents

• Project Proposal Memo

Old Pages