INF502

Repo for information about INF502 Graduate Course: Software Development Methodologies @ NAU

Credits: course materials adapted from Dr. Igor Steinmacher (Igor.Steinmacher@nau.edu)

Office hours

TuTh 9:00AM-11:00AM; We 1:30PM-3:30PM; Room 090-216

Important dates (Fall 2022)

• Last day to drop without a W: September 8
• Midterm exam (tentative): October 18
• Final exam: December 15 - 12:30pm-2:30pm - see the University Schedule

Syllabus

Download the Fall 2022 Syllabus here. Please, also check NAU Syllabus Policies.

Course Schedule

Everything on this schedule is subject to change based on specific student and/or course needs that emerge. Please stay tuned for changes and assignments that will appear here as the course progresses.

Week	Date.	Content (tentative)	Comments.	Assignments out	Deadline
1	Aug 30	Intro to Programming languages
	Sep 1	Git/GitHub		HW1
2	Sep 6	Git/GitHub (part 2)
	Sep 8	Python essentials	Syntax, types
3	Sep 13		conditionals
	Sep 15	Python essentials: Functions and structures		PA1	HW1
4	Sep 20	(cont.)Functions and structures		HW2
	Sep 22	Python part 2: file handling
5	Sep 27	Practice: HW and PA assigment
	Sep 29	Python part 2: exceptions and modules			HW2
6	Oct 4	Jupyter Notebooks/Google Colab		HW3
	Oct 6	Intro to object-orientation	Markdown cheatsheet
7	Oct 11	Python OO practice			HW3
	Oct 13	Python OO practice (cont.)			PA1
8	Oct 18	MIDTERM
	Oct 20	Mid term discussion
9	Oct 25	Data analysis libraries: Pandas		HW4
	Oct 27
10	Nov 1	REST API data collection		PA2
	Nov 3				HW4
11	Nov 8	Web Scraping
	Nov 10	Scraping + Pandas Practice
12	Nov 15	Algorithm design and sorting/searching strategies		HW5
	Nov 17	Algorithm strategies: Trial and error (video) Note: requires NAU credentials
13	Nov 22	Agile development: kanban; test-driven development	Example (notebook)
	Nov 24	THANKSGIVING
14	Nov 29	Project development			HW5
	Dec 1
15	Dec 6
	Dec 8	Wrap up			PA2
16	Dec 13	FINALS WEEK
	Dec 15	FINAL EXAM (12:30PM-2:30pm)