Announcements
Software Development Process
As part of software development process, each team is expected to use a structured development process, including pull requests, code reviews, etc. Each team will also submit sprint reports, individual surveys, and have weekly meetings with TA Mentor. The development process started last week (as you started developing your project plan) and the required “process-related” submissions will start this week.
Here are important submissions to remember for upcoming weeks:
- Every week all members of a team are expected to meet with their mentor TA for a regularly scheduled meeting. Weekly Canvas assignments (called “TA Meeting”) will help track your attendance for these meetings.
- Every week each student is expected to complete one (Confidential, Peer Evaluation) Survey by Wednesday noon. The link can be found under the Canvas assignment (called “Peer Evaluations”) which will help track if you completed the survey or not.
- At the end of each sprint, each team will submit a sprint report (and retrospective) through a Canvas assignment (called “Sprint Report and Retrospective”).
- After the revised project plan is submitted, we will provide instructions to create project repos. During your development, each team member is expected to contribute to the project regularly. TAs will review your github commits, PRs, code reviews regularly and will keep an eye on appropriate division of labor within the project team. They will also provide you a weekly assessment of your work.
These assignments are required for weeks 6, 8-13 and count towards “project process” part of the project which is worth 20% of the overall project grade. Please add these to your calendars or reminders.
Project Teams Announced
Project Team Assignments are now posted on piazza. Please coordinate with your assigned TA Mentors to schedule a kick-off meeting. The first team deliverable will be the preliminary project plan due on Oct 8th. The requirements for the project plan can be found on the course website and the related Canvas assignment is also posted.
Individual Project 2 is Now Available
The second and (final!) individual project deliverable is now released, and will be due on Wednesday, Oct 15 at 12pm (noon) ET. We strongly encourage you to read through the assignment soon, so that you can begin to formulate a plan of attack to complete this assignment.
Team Formation Survey is Now Available
Please complete this Team Formation Survey to help us organize you into a team for the term project. EVERY STUDENT must fill this form out by 12pm (Noon) on Wednesday 9/24/2025, or risk being placed in a random team. Please fill out the form even if you don’t have preference for team members.
We would recommend that you check with other students in your section before filling out the survey.
Individual Project Deliverable 1 Posted
The first individual project deliverable is now available. This deliverable is due by Thursday September 18th at 12pm (Noon) ET (was previously due on Wednesday September 17th). Your work will be submitted through github Classroom.
We would encourage you to start working on this assignment early. Feel free to use piazza to ask questions and use office hours if you need help. We have 80 hours of scheduled TA office hours per week. The schedule of office hours is posted on the staff page.
Welcome to CS4530 - Fall 2025
On behalf of the entire instructional team (all 3 instructors and 20 TAs), welcome to the Fall 2025 edition of CS 4530! This website will contain all of the lectures, assignments and tutorials for the class. Our Canvas site contains your gradebook as well as single-sign-on links to Piazza (for questions and discussion), instructions for submitting assignments and replicates much of the material from the class website.
In advance of the first week of class, we’ve shared the calendars for each section, the first two lectures (with related activities), and tutorials on installing your IDE, Typescript, Unit testing with Jest, MongoDB and API Requests.
The first individual project deliverable will be available soon (no later than Friday). We will send another announcement when it is published.
The schedule of office hours is now posted on the staff page. We will start holding office hours from Thursday Sep 4th. We have 80 hours of scheduled TA office hours per week.
Zoom link for the online section (Section 9) can be found on Canvas -> Zoom Meetings.
We are looking forward to meeting you all this week!