College of Science
Department of Math and Computer Science
CS410-463B: Software Project Management and Development
Winter Term of 1999/2000
Web-page: http://mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~almulla/courses/cs463.html
Class Time & Location: 135 09:00-09:50, room Kh\11-207, Khaldia Campus
Instructor: Dr. Mohammed Almulla
- Email: almulla@castor.sci.kuniv.edu.kw
- Tel: (965) 481-1188 Ext. 5303 (work)
- Khaldia\1 Building, Room 3135
- Office hours: 24, 10:00am-11:00am
- Office hours: or by appointment
- Ali Al-Anjawi
- Email: alanjawi@unforgettable.com
- Tel: (965) 481-1188 Ext. 7837 (office)
- Khal/3, Second floor, TA partitions
- Office hours: Sat. 10-12:30 and Sun. 8:30-11
- Office hours: or by appointment
Online Resources
- Prerequisites
- Course Objectives
- Project Selection List
- Textbook
- Assignments
- Midterm Exam
- Final Exam
- Course Grading System
Prerequisites
You should be familiar with programming in a high level languages including the use of modular programming, parameter passing mechanisms, analysis of algorithms, and data structures. I expect that all of you are familiar with at least one advanced concept in computer science such as computer networking, databases, principles of programming languages, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, object-oriented programming, or software design, modeling and engineering. You will be asked to choose and develop a project that corresponds to the field of your interest. Your product has to be recent and reflects the state of the art in the computer technology these days.Full exposure to algorithms, data structures and knowlege representation is needed for this course. This material is covered in the course 356, which is the actual prerequisite for this course. You are also expected to follow the programming style that you have been trained on in 126 and 206. The actual prerequesite of the course is Data Structures and Algorithms 300.
Course Objectives
This course is designed to allow the students to show their conceptual and programming abilities. The course is aimed at students with a strong background in computer science. The emphasis is on algorithms and theoretical machinery for building and analysing computational systems. The coverage of the project domains is broad, with selected topics explored in greater depth but with no attempt to exhaustively survey the entire selected field.
Project Selection List
- Email & workflow system.
- Database connectivity
- Electronic Commerce
- Parallel search techniques
- Arabic OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
- Pattern matching & Shape recognition
- Modeling stock prices in Kuwait Stock market.
- Course advisor expert system.
- Handwriting recognition.
- Programming language converstion (Ada -> C).
- Web site for the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs.
- Web site to accomodate the products of this course.
- PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine Programming
- Software object relational diagram visualization
- Mathematics Tutor Software
Textbook
- No specific textbook is required for this courses.
- References for selected topics are available in the student science library.
Assignments
There will be no assignments in this course. However, one month after selecting the project topic,you are required to submit a proposal explaining your choice, the selected model, and the method of implementation. Click here to see the project selection status page. Your proposal has to be typed and submitted in good English format. The exact due date of submitting the proposal will be specified in class.
Midterm Exams
There will be no midterms in this course.Final Exam
There will be no final exam in the course. However, after submitting the final product, there will be in class presentation of the work accompanied with a computer demo of the delivered product.
Course Grading System
- Class Attendance %5
- Project proposal %25
- Final Product %60
- Work Presentation %10