Announcements
Information about Project Final Deliverables, Posters/Demos and 'Work on Project' Sessions
We have published requirements for final project deliverables on the course website. This includes grading rubrics and other requirements related to the submission of the final project (i.e., code/testing, report, posters and demos). Canvas assignments for these are also published now.
In addition, each instructor has provided a list of expectations for the final demos / presentations with the grading rubric. Please be sure to review these quickly.
Finally, we have scheduled a number of ‘work on project’ sessions during our regular class meetings. Please check the calendar for your section. For those class meetings we will be taking attendance. Your attendance at these meetings will collectively count as 1 In-Class Activity.
Team Repository Setup Now Available
We have posted the instructions for setting up your team repository. You can find them in the CI/CD Pipeline Activity. The repository will include the starter code for the final project. We recommend that you start this process as soon as possible to avoid any delays.
In addition, each team needs to work with their Mentor TA to choose one issue tracking software for their project. You will need to update your project work on github Projects, JIRA or something similar.
Canvas assignment for this activity will be published shortly.
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 Friday 6pm. 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, 10-14 and count towards “project process” part of the project which is worth 20% of the overall project grade. Please add these to your calendars as 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 Feb 11th. The requirements for the project plan can be found on the course website and the related Canvas assignment will be published shortly.
If you have any questions about the project team assignment, please reach out to your instructor by email.
Team Formation Survey is Now Available + IP2 Published
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 11am EST on Wednesday Jan 28th. Please fill out the form even if you don’t have any preference for team members. We would recommend that you check with other students in your section BEFORE filling out the survey.
Also, the second individual project deliverable is now released, and will be due on Wednesday, Feb 4th at 11am EST. 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.
Welcome to CS4530 - Spring 2026
On behalf of the entire instructional team (all 3 instructors and 18 TAs), welcome to the Spring 2026 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 Vitest, and API Requests.
The first individual project deliverable will also be posted shortly. This deliverable will be due on Wednesday January 21st 11am EST. Your work will be submitted through github Classroom and Gradescope.
Tomorrow afternoon (i.e., first day of classes), we will be adding all enrolled students to our github organization (and you will be receving an invitation by email). Once you have accepted that, you will be be able to start working on IP1, which we would encourage you to do early. Feel free to use piazza to ask questions and use office hours if you need help.
The schedule of office hours will be posted on the staff page tomorrow. We will start holding office hours from Thursday Jan 8th and we will have 70+ hours of scheduled TA office hours per week.
Zoom link for the online section (Section 4) can be found on Canvas -> Zoom Meetings.
We are looking forward to meeting you all this week!