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CS 461 / 462 / 463:

Career Preparation and Software Engineering Capstone Project

Fall-Winter-Spring Quarters 2009-2010

http://cs.oregonstate.edu/capstone

This page was last updated: February 9, 2010

Click here to see the list of project assignments for 2009-2010

Click here to see the list of the CS Capstone projects proposed for 2009-2010.

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Announcements:

• Starting Sunday, February 14, Individual P3s are no longer required. The Individual P3 links on the class web site have been disabled so that nobody attempts to do it anyway. (This is for the rest of the school year -- it's not just a Valentines Day present...)

• Class for February 11 has been changed to Team-Time. But, if you're interested, here are the notes we would have covered, in one, two, and six slide-per-page formats.

• Here are the notes for February 9's Parallel class in one, two, and six slide-per-page formats.

• Here are Ben Tribelhorn's iPhone Development notes, in one-per-page and four-per-page formats.

• Click here to get a copy of Joe Tanous's Successful Startup notes.

• The EECS+MIME Industry Reception is Tuesday evening, February 16 (the evening before the WQ Career Fair). This is a chance to do general networking with industry people and then get some more dedicated time with them afterwards. It is all free to you.
  For more details, or to register, go here.
  A list of companies attending is available here.
  Also, be sure to upload your resume (even if you can't make it). We make a resume book from these and give them to the companies. Companies do make hiring decisions based on the resume book - so don't miss out.

• Here are Ananth Vadlamani's GPS notes from January 28: 2pp 6pp

• Class on February 4 will be an optional iPhone development tutorial by Ben Tribelhorn.

• Click here to get Ben Tribelhorn's Debugging notes.

• Click here to get Ken Saul's Interview notes.

  Here is the Ten-Tough-Interview-Questions link from Ken Saul's talk: http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Article/MSN-1778-Interviewing-How-to-Answer-10-Tough-Interview-Questions/?sc_extcmp=JS_1778_advice&SiteId=cbmsn41778&catid=iv

• Here is a link to the OSU Career Services Salary Survey page. (Which, itself, is a link to various other salary survey pages.)
  I found this link on Salary.com to be useful, especially for Software Engineer I. It seems to confirm Ken Saul's estimate. (I put in Corvallis as the location. Higher cost-of-living areas should be higher.)

• Click here for the complete list of Interview Game questions from class on Nov 5 and 10.

• Click here to get a copy of Denis Sather's IP notes from October 29.

• Here's an interesting read. It's titled "Are Today's Grads Unprofessional?". It is overly harsh, but it is interesting to see what other peoples' impressions of you (and me) are.

• If you are on an iPhone project (or even if you're not):

  1. Team 23 found a free online iPhone course via Stanford's iTunes U. Find it here.

  2. If you want to see what last year's iPhone Capstone team learned, click here. Be sure to scroll all the way down to see the helpful text at the end.

• Here are links to sites related to backing up your files:
  • PC Magazine article
  • Mozy
  • Drop Box

• For class on October 20 and 22, please print the Software Engineering review notes.

• For class on October 27, please print the Project Management Software notes.

• We've setup disk space for your project team to share. That disk space is owned by just your group. Each team's space is setup at (on Linux): /nfs/stak/a2/classes/eecs/fall2009/cs461/teams/tXX , where XX is your 2-digit team number: 01, 02, 03, ..., 35, 36.

  or, on Windows: \\stak.engr.oregonstate.edu\classes\eecs\fall2009\cs461\teams\tXX

  This is a good place to work on common files, do version control, etc. There is also a soft link so that these spaces will work as web directories: http://classes.engr.oregonstate.edu/eecs/fall2009/cs461/teams/tXX/qqq.html

  If you have need for a MySQL database, have one person from your team send email to support@engr.oregonstate.edu and ask for it. Let them know you are part of this class, and what team number you are.

  These areas will persist throughout the school year. Thus, even when the name of this class has changed to CS462 or CS463, the ...fall2009... and ...cs461... parts of the path will stay the same.

• Team P3s are due at 23:59:59 every Sunday night.
  The Team P3 page is here.

• Click here for a copy of Ken Saul's Resume notes from October 15.

• The list of companies attending the October 21 Career Fair can be found here.
  By default, this page only shows you the first 20 company names. Ask for 250 at a time to get the whole list. Then search for College of Engineering -> Computer Science to see the 71 (as of now) that you probably most care about.

• Click here for a copy of Prof. Tom Dietterich's Grad School notes from October 13.

• Every year, EECS creates a resume book which is given out to lots of companies. This is good for both permanent jobs and internships. Go here to upload your resume.

• OSU's Career Services offers many classes on such things as dining etiquette. Click here to find out more about them.
  The whole Career Services site can be found here.

• The Career Services Dining Etiquette and Networking handouts have been scanned in and can be found in the class Handouts link.

Professor

Office:	Kelley 2117
Phone:	541-737-2542
E-mail:	mjb@cs.oregonstate.edu
Web site:	http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~mjb

Office Hours:

The Virtual Hand Raise

I recognize that it sometimes takes courage to ask a question in class or to express an opinion. But, the worst thing of all is to not say anything! So, this class has a feature called the Virtual Hand Raise. Click here to get into it. It will allow you to send me a question or comment, completely anonymously. I will answer all questions submitted this way at the start of the next class.

Adobe Connect

Beaver Source

All projects are encouraged to use CS's new code-sharing social-networking site Beaver Source. As a start, I've created a group called "CS 46*", which you should join. Feel free to create a new group for your project. It's a great way to show the world what you are doing.

Class Schedule

To see an academic year calendar, click here.

Here is the Fall Quarter class schedule.

Grading

Grades will be posted through this web page. To protect your privacy, they will be posted by your alias that you give me in Project #1. Click here to see the current grade posting.

Here is the Fall Quarter grading scheme.

Attendance

Some classes will be specific to running your project. Some classes will relate to CS Career Preparation. You are expected to attend all classes. Attendance will be taken at some classes and will contribute to your grade.

Students With Disabilities

Accommodations are collaborative efforts between students, faculty and Disability Access Services (DAS). Students with accommodations approved through DAS are responsible for contacting the faculty member in charge of the course prior to or during the first week of the term to discuss accommodations. Students who believe they are eligible for accommodations but who have not yet obtained approval through DAS should contact DAS immediately at 737-4098.

Class Rules

• Lab Rules: No propping the Clubhouse doors open.

• Computer Security: We take computer security very seriously. Please use intelligently-chosen passwords and protect them. Anyone caught abusing the system or causing deliberate damage will be asked to drop the class and the matter will be turned over to the Dean's Office.

• Your Share of the Work You are expected to do your share of the work.

• Academic Dishonesty You are expected to read and understand Oregon State's Academic Dishonesty Policy and Oregon State's Code of Conduct.

  If you do not understand some part of either document, please come talk with me!

• Email From Me The only address I will ever use to email you will be mjb at some Oregon State domain. If you get an email from a different address claiming to be me, do not respond to it, and let me know right away.

Other Useful Information

• OpenGL stuff:
  • GLUT/GLUI diagram
  • GLUT Main Loop diagram
  • sample.cpp program
  • Click here to get the glut and glui files.
  • PDF GLUT Documentation:
  • OpenGL User Interface (GLUI) Documentation

  Put sample.cpp and the Windows version of the glut and glui files together in a separate folder.

• Margaret Mellinger, margaret.mellinger@oregonstate.edu, Kelley 2121, x-79642, works for the OSU library and has offered to give you special help on any literature searches you need to do. If you contact her, identify yourself as a CS Senior Project student.

• Team Resources:
  • Manual for Working in Teams