Course Info

Lectures

Dec 16: Your final score used for grading is computed as follows:

• We have taken best 3 out of 4 homeworks.
• Homeworks contribute 20% towards your final score.
• Midterm contributes 30% towards your final score.
• Project contributes 50% towards your final score.
• Your project score has been scaled based on peer evaluation.
• The scaling factor has been computed by taking the ratio of your average score and the median average score of your team.
• We have added some bonus points for active class participation.

Dec 16: Grades for the final demo are also available now.

Dec 16: Grades for homework-5 and final presentation are available now.

Dec 12: Solution for homework 5 is up.

Dec 12: Homework 5 has been graded. If you haven't collected your graded sheet yet, please collect it from Pallavi during her office hour today (3-4 pm in Soda 651), or after the final demo.

Dec 10: Final demos will take place in Soda 380. Please return the G1 phone after the demo.

Dec 8: Here is the final demo schedule for Dec 15:

• Zipiki 11-11:30am
• Mobile Image Editor 11:30am-12pm
• ReceiptTracker 12-12:30pm
• Riffle 12:30-1:00pm

Dec 8: Please complete the the teammate evaluation form by Dec 10th. It is mandatory to complete the form. The results will be shared with your teammates but the person submitting will remain anonymous. This is the final form and the results will be used to weigh each teammate's grades for the project.

Dec 5: proj7 deadlines have been extended. You now have to email the updated design and requirements documents and instructions to download/install/run your code to your testing team by 11am on Dec 8. The testing report for proj7 is due at 11pm on Dec 12.

Dec 4: If your requirements and design documents have changed since proj5, please send them too to your testing team along with the instructions to download/install/run your code.

Dec 3: proj7 has been posted. Its submission deadline is 12/10, 11pm. By 6pm on December 5, you have to send an email to the team who had reviewed your project with complete instructions on how to download/install/run your code. Please cc the TA in charge of your project.

Dec 1: There is no final exam on 17th December. The final demo is the final exam for this course.

Dec 1: Schedule a 30 minute slot for the final demo on 15th December (between 11 am and 3 pm). Please send pallavi@eecs.berkeley.edu an email to schedule your demo.

Dec 1: Guest lecture by Tim Mattson today in class. Attendance is mandatory. We have a grade of 1 point for attendance.

Nov 25: All teams must send their final presentation slides to cs169@cory by 12:01 pm on 3rd December.

Nov 25: Class lecture on 12/08 will include course summary and tips

Nov 24: Final presentation schedule: (Read guidelines for final presentation)
[Note: Presentations on both days will start sharp at 1pm (not 1:10pm)]

• Groups 1,2,3 will present on Dec 3rd
• Group 4 will present on Dec 8th
  

Nov 24: Final demo for all the project groups will be on Dec 15th.

Nov 24: Reminder: Homework-5 is due on Dec 3rd.

Nov 24: In case your group has not signed up for the G1-phone, please do so immediately: sign-up sheet. FYI: We are expecting to get 2 more phone in the next week. We will distribute them for your use as soon as we get them.

Nov 20: Final presentation details are out. Please read this page.

Nov 20: hw5 has been posted. It is due on 12/03 at 11pm. Please email pallavi@eecs.berkeley.edu in case you have any doubts regarding the homework.

Nov 20: Midterm papers have been graded. Collect them from Pallavi Joshi on Friday (11/21) between 3-4pm at Soda 651.

• Grades have been uploaded. You can access it through glookup. Check out midterm stats.
• Sample solution for midterm is here. This also gives the break-up of scores for individual parts in questions. Please refer to this before you request rechecks.
• In case of recheck requests, meet the TAs after class on Monday. You can alternatively send a mail to pallavi@eecs or yamini@eecs.

Nov 20: Please sign up for the G1 phone here. A team can borrow it for only a day. After all teams have used the phone for a day each, we will have a second round when teams can borrow the phone again for a second time.

Nov 19: Grades for homework-4 are available now! Graded copies of homework-4 were given out in class today. In case you have re-check questions, send a mail to yamini@eecs. For anybody who did not collect their homework today, it will be returned in class on Monday.

Nov 12: Sample Solution for homework-4 is available here: writeup, junit tests.

Nov 12: Grades for homework-3 have been entered.

Nov 12: Solution for homework-4 will be put up tonight. In case you haven't mailed them yet, e-mail your solutions by 11pm today. Beyond 11pm, your solutions will not be considered and you will be given zero.

Nov 11: Feedback from teammate evaluation (peer review) has been e-mailed to all of you. Contact Yamini (yamini@eecs.berkeley.edu) in case you have not received it.

Nov 11: Midterm is on Nov 17th, from 1:00pm to 2:30pm in 310 Soda (regular class time and venue). Students are allowed to use two sheets (4 pages) of hand-written notes during the mid-term.

Nov 10: Homework-4 due Today by 11 PM. Late Policy will be strictly enforced!

Nov 8: Fall 2007 midterm and Spring 2008 midterm have been put up for practice.

Nov 8: Here is a sample solution to homework 3.

Nov 7: Homework 4 deadline has been extended to Monday (11/10) 11pm.

Nov 7: Read this e-mail for some clarification regarding hw4.

Nov 6: Final project presentations will be moved from 12/1 to 12/8. Mail Prof. Koushik Sen (ksen@eecs.berkeley.edu) if you have any concern about this change in schedule.

Nov 6: Guest Lecture Schedule [Attendance is mandatory. We have a grade of 1 point for attendance during guest lectures!]:

• 11/19: Lecture by Dr. Sumant Kowshik from Coverity, on static analysis and its impact on the software industry.
• 12/1: Dr. Tim Mattson from Intel will complete his lecture on 12/1. He will give us more information about the problems and challenges that the software industry will be facing in the next few years due to the multi-core revolution.

Nov 4: [Tentative Guest Lecture Schedule] Lecture on 11/19 will be given by a guest from Coverity, a startup that develops powerful static analysis tools. Attendance is mandatory.

Oct 30: Please complete the teammate evaluation form by Wednesday November 5th, 2008. It is mandatory to complete the form. We have a grade of 1 point for form submission. The results will be shared with your teammates but the person submitting will remain anonymous. The results will let you know how you are doing in the group and what you can do to improve.

Oct 29: Grades for presentation-2 and homework-2 are now available.

Oct 29: Homework-4 has been posted now - it is due on Nov 8th (Saturday) by 5pm. Late Policy will be strictly enforced! In case you have any queries or doubts, email them to yamini@eecs.berkeley.edu or drop by during office hours or by appointment.

Oct 29: HW3 is due tomorrow (October 30, 1pm).

Oct 29: Guest Lecture will be given on Nov 5 by Tim Mattson from Intel. Attendance is mandatory!!

Oct 29: Midterm is on Nov 17th, from 1:00pm to 2:30pm in 310 Soda. There is no final exam for the course. Final Project demos will be held on Dec 15th.

Oct 28: We will have lecture on Wednesday (10/29) on debugging

Oct 27: Homework 2's solution is up.

Oct 25: All project teams are required to upload their presentations on their wiki pages. Please do it by Oct 27 (Monday) 5PM. Presentations will not be graded unless uploaded by the mentioned deadline!

Oct 22: Submission date for hw3 has been extended till Thursday. New submission date for hw3 is October 30, 1pm. Please email your solutions to cs169@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu. Note: Late Policy will be strictly enforced. You will lose 0.5% of the score for an assignment, for each hour it is late.

Oct 21: All project groups - please email your design presentation slides to cs169@eecs.berkeley.edu before the start of the lecture tomorrow!

Oct 21: Grades for proj5 and proj6 are now available. Grades for proj3 have also been updated.

Oct 20: Schedule for design presentations: Oct 20 (Monday) - projects 1,2; Oct 22 (Wednesday) - projects 3,4. Each team gets 30 minutes+5 minutes for questions. Please email your slides to cs169@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu.

Oct 20: hw3 has been posted. It is due on October 27, in class at the start of the lecture.

Oct 16: We will have a midterm review on November 12 in class. Please come prepared with any questions or doubts that you might have from the course syllabus.

Oct 13: Please upload your requirements and design documents to your project wiki by Thursday (10/16). We will not consider your documents after this deadline.

Oct 13: hw2 has been posted. It is due on October 20, in class at the start of the lecture.

Oct 13: The svn accounts have been set up. Each team can access their svn account by going to the following URL: https://isvn.eecs.berkeley.edu/cs169/groupX, where X is your group number. You will need your class account username and password to log in.

Oct 12: Design pattern examples are up. Please take some time to work these out. We will post the solutions sometime next week.

Oct 10: Midterm is on Nov 17th, from 1:00pm to 2:30pm in 310 Soda (regular class time and venue). Students are allowed to use two sheets (4 pages) of hand-written notes during the mid-term.

Oct 10: Grades for Project 3 and Presentation 1 are now available.

Oct 9: proj6 has been posted. Its submission deadline is 10/15/2008, 11pm. Two design reviews have been emailed to each team. Please use those reviews to modify your documents.

Oct 5: proj5 has been posted. Its submission deadline is 10/08/2008, 11pm. Each group has been emailed with the design and requirements' documents that it has to review for proj5.

Oct 1: Grades for proj1 are now available.

Oct 1: Guest Lecture on Nov 5 by Tim Mattson from Intel. Attendance is compulsory!!

Oct 1: Login and password for project wikis will be e-mailed to you. Upload your documents (Requirements and future documents), presentations here.

Oct 1: Project 5 will be given on Saturday. Submission deadline: Wednesday Oct-08, 11:00 pm

Sep 25: A sample design document can be found here.

Sep 25: proj4 has been posted. Its submission deadline is 10/04/2008, 11 pm.

Sep 25: Wikis for individual projects are ready. Contact the TAs to get login and password.

Sep 25: Projects 1, 2, 3 will present on Monday (9/29) and project 4 will present on Wednesday (10/1). Check your project number here. Check the discussion slides for details on the presentations here.

Sep 20: Sample Requirements and Specification documents can be found here, and here.

Sep 17: proj3 has been posted. Its submission deadline is 09/24/2008, 11pm.

Sep 17: Today there will be no office hours

Sep 16: You can provide us anonymous feedback about various aspects of the course using this link.

Sep 16: There will be no discussion sections unless announced.

Sep 11: proj2 has been posted. Its submission deadline is Sep 15, 11 pm.

Aug 28: proj1 has been posted. Its submission deadline is Sep 09, 11 pm.

Aug 27: Homework 1 has been posted. Its submission deadline is Sep 01 (Monday), 11 pm.

Aug 25: The webpage has been updated with some primary course information, and also with the schedule of the lectures. More updates to follow in the next few days.