Welcome!
This is the home page for Sections 1 and 2 of CS 4530 (Fundamentals of Software Engineering) and
Sections 2, 6, and 7 of CS 5500 (Foundations of Software Engineering). These sections will share the
same syllabus and lecture notes and follow the same schedule.
For information about Section 1 of CS 5500,
see
Mike Shah's course page). For information about Sections 3
and 4 of CS 5500, please consult the
appropriate web page for Seattle sections.
Meeting Times & Locations
Instructors
Jon Bell (CS 4530 Section 2 & CS 5500 Section 6)
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Frank Tip (CS 4530 Section 1 & CS 5500 Section 7)
Office Hours: Mon 9am-10am & Thu 4pm-5pm (via Zoom)
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Mitch Wand (CS 5500 Section 2)
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Teaching Assistants
Weijie Deng
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Jake Feinbaum
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Magnus Frennberg
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Satyajit Gokhale
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Rajath Kashyap
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Prajakta Rodrigues
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Alexi Turcotte
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Piazza
Sign up for the course piazza site here. (We may auto-enroll you based on
the information we get from the Registrar, but
that's not definite.)
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks for this course, but you may find the following books helpful:
- Pressman, R., Software Engineering A Practitioner's Approach, Eighth Edition
- Fowler, M.,
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
- Brooks, Jr., F.P., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition.Addison-Wesley, 1995
- Beck, Kent,
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. ISBN: 978-0321278654
- Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, 1995.
- Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, and Krishnamurthi.
How to Design Programs , MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2001.
- TypeScript Design Patterns
- React with TypeScript 3
- Learning React
- Programming TypeScript
Note: NU students have free online access to most or all O'Reilly books via the NU
Library. Go to
https://library.northeastern.edu/research/resources/items/oreilly-for-higher-education-previously-safari-books-online
and follow the links. If asked to select your institution, select "None of the Above", which
is the first item on the menu, and log in with your northeastern.edu email address. This
will get you full access, and will also keep track of your favorites, etc.
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