Supplemental Notes

The topics are not in the class text, but you may find them useful in conquering your COMP 145 project...

Intellectual Property Law for Software

Team Organization

Software process models

Example Project Timeline (Gantt Chart)

Module coupling and cohesion

Object-oriented design, and USES

IDL

Design patterns

Class notes
Appleton: Essential concepts
Patterns Homepage
WUSTL Patterns page

Open Systems software development

Example Industrial Specs

How Specs Live Forever

Your implementation manual

COCOMO: Resource estimation

Building GUIs with Tcl/Tk

Perl: Language Overview (thanks to Dr. John Smith)

Perl: Writing WWW CGI scripts (thanks to Dr. John Smith)

Coming next ...

CRC Cards for OO Design

Documenting an OO Design

UML Standard modeling language

Quality Assurance and ISO 9000

Distributed Systems and Module Interconnection Languages

Computer/Human Interaction and User Interface Design

Multi-user Interfaces and Collaborative Systems

Overview of Formal Methods