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Weekly Overview

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Course Schedule
Dates	Module Chapters	Assignments & Reviews
Week 1 [8/23 - 8/29]	1.1 Introduction 1.2 Software Development Processes: Plan and Document 1.3 Software Development Processes: The Agile Manifesto 1.4 Software Quality Assurance: Testing 1.5 Productivity: Conciseness, Synthesis, Reuse, and Tools 1.6 SaaS and Service-Oriented Architecture 1.7 Deploying SaaS: Cloud Computing 1.8 Deploying SaaS: Browsers and Mobile 1.9 Beautiful vs. Legacy Code 1.10 How to Have a Bad Experience in This Course 2.1 Learning to Learn Languages and Frameworks 2.2 Pair Programming 2.3 Introducing Ruby, an Object-Oriented Language 2.4 Ruby Idioms: Poetry Mode and Blocks 2.4.1 Closures and Metaprogramming 2.6 Gems and Bundler: Library Management in Ruby	2.5 CHIPS: Ruby Intro Opens: Thurs, 8/26 Due: Wed, 9/1
Week 2 [8/30 - 9/5]	1.1 Introduction 1.2 Software Development Processes: Plan and Document 1.3 Software Development Processes: The Agile Manifesto 1.4 Software Quality Assurance: Testing 1.5 Productivity: Conciseness, Synthesis, Reuse, and Tools 1.6 SaaS and Service-Oriented Architecture 1.7 Deploying SaaS: Cloud Computing 1.8 Deploying SaaS: Browsers and Mobile 1.9 Beautiful vs. Legacy Code 1.10 How to Have a Bad Experience in This Course 2.1 Learning to Learn Languages and Frameworks 2.2 Pair Programming 2.3 Introducing Ruby, an Object-Oriented Language 2.4 Ruby Idioms: Poetry Mode and Blocks 2.4.1 Closures and Metaprogramming 2.6 Gems and Bundler: Library Management in Ruby	2.5 CHIPS: Ruby Intro Opens: Thurs, 8/26 Due: Wed, 9/1 3.3 CHIPS: HTTP Intro Opens: Wed, 9/1 Due: Thurs, 9/9 CHIP 3.3 Supplemental Submission Opens: Wed, 9/1 Due: Thurs, 9/9
Week 3 [9/6 - 9/12]	3.1 The Web's Client–Server Architecture 3.2 SaaS Communication Uses HTTP Routes 3.4 From Web Sites to Microservices: Service-Oriented Architecture 3.5 RESTful APIs: Everything is a Resource 3.6 RESTful URIs, API Calls, and JSON	Quiz 1: Modules 1 and 2 on Tues 9/7 3.3 CHIPS: HTTP Intro Opens: Wed, 9/1 Due: Thurs, 9/9 CHIP 3.3 Supplemental Submission Opens: Wed, 9/1 Due: Thurs, 9/9 3.7 CHIPS: WordGuesser Opens: Wed, 9/8 Due: Wed, 9/15
Week 4 [9/13 - 9/19]	4.1 The Model–View–Controller (MVC) Architecture 4.2 Rails Models: Databases and Active Record 4.4 Routes, Controllers, and Views 4.5 Forms 4.6 CHIPS: Wordguesser on Rails 4.7 Debugging: When Things Go Wrong	3.7 CHIPS: WordGuesser Opens: Wed, 9/8 Due: Wed, 9/15 4.3 CHIPS: ActiveRecord Basics Opens: Wed, 9/15 Due: Tues, 9/21
Week 5 [9/20 - 9/26]	5.1 DRYing Out MVC: Partials, Validations and Filters 5.1.1 Composing Queries with Reusable Scopes (optional) 5.2 Single Sign-On and Third-Party Authentication 5.4 Associations and Foreign Keys 5.5 Through-Associations 5.6 RESTful Routes for Associations 5.8 Other Types of Code	4.3 CHIPS: ActiveRecord Basics Opens: Wed, 9/15 Due: Tues, 9/21 4.6 CHIPS: Wordguesser on Rails and Required Supplement Open: Tues, 9/21 Due: Mon 9/27
Week 6 [9/27 - 10/3]	6.1 JavaScript: The Big Picture 6.2 Introducing ECMAScript 6.3 Classes, Functions and Constructors 6.4 The Document Object Model (DOM) and jQuery 6.5 The DOM and Accessibility 6.6 Events and Callbacks 6.7 AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript And XML 6.8 Testing JavaScript and AJAX 6.10 Single-Page Apps and JSON APIs	4.6 CHIPS: Wordguesser on Rails and Required Supplement Open: Tues, 9/21 Due: Tues 9/28 4.8 CHIPS: Hello Rails Opens: Tues, 9/28 Due: Mon, 10/4
Week 7 [10/4 - 10/10]	7.1 Behavior-Driven Design and User Stories 7.2 SMART User Stories 7.3 Lo-Fi User Interface Sketches and Storyboards 7.4 Points and Velocity 7.5 Agile Cost Estimation 7.6 Cucumber: From User Stories to Acceptance Tests 7.8 Explicit vs. Implicit and Imperative vs. Declarative Scenarios 7.9 The Plan-And-Document Perspective on Documentation	Quiz 2: Modules 3 and 4 on Tues 10/5 5.3 CHIPS: Rails Intro Opens: Wed, 10/6 Due: Fri, 10/15
Week 8 [10/11 - 10/17]	7.1 Behavior-Driven Design and User Stories 7.2 SMART User Stories 7.3 Lo-Fi User Interface Sketches and Storyboards 7.4 Points and Velocity 7.5 Agile Cost Estimation 7.6 Cucumber: From User Stories to Acceptance Tests 7.8 Explicit vs. Implicit and Imperative vs. Declarative Scenarios 7.9 The Plan-And-Document Perspective on Documentation 8.1 FIRST, TDD, and Red–Green–Refactor 8.2 Anatomy of a Test Case: Arrange, Act, Assert 8.3 Isolating Code: Doubles and Seams 8.4 Stubbing the Internet 8.6 Fixtures and Factories 8.7 Coverage Concepts and Types of Tests 8.8 Other Testing Approaches and Terminology 8.10 The Plan-And-Document Perspective on Testing	5.3 CHIPS: Rails Intro Opens: Wed, 10/6 Due: Fri, 10/15
Week 9 [10/18 - 10/24]	8.1 FIRST, TDD, and Red–Green–Refactor 8.2 Anatomy of a Test Case: Arrange, Act, Assert 8.3 Isolating Code: Doubles and Seams 8.4 Stubbing the Internet 8.6 Fixtures and Factories 8.7 Coverage Concepts and Types of Tests 8.8 Other Testing Approaches and Terminology 8.10 The Plan-And-Document Perspective on Testing	Quiz 3: Modules 5 and 6 on Tues 10/19 7.7 CHIPS: Intro to BDD and Cucumber Opens: Mon 10/18 Due: Mon 10/25
Week 10 [10/25 - 10/31]	9.1 What Makes Code "Legacy" and How Can Agile Help? 9.2 Exploring a Legacy Codebase 9.3 Establishing Ground Truth with Characterization Tests 9.4 Comments and Commits: Documenting Code 9.5 Metrics, Code Smells, and SOFA 9.6 Method-Level Refactoring: Replacing Dependencies with Seams 9.7 The Plan-And-Document Perspective on Working with Legacy Code	7.7 CHIPS: Intro to BDD and Cucumber Opens: Mon 10/18 Due: Mon 10/25 8.5 CHIPS: Rspec on Rails Opens: Tues 10/26 Due: Wed 11/10
Week 11 [11/1 - 11/7]	10.1 It Takes a Team: Two-Pizza and Scrum 10.2 Using Branches Effectively 10.3 Pull Requests and Code Reviews 10.4 Delivering the Backlog Using Continuous Integration 10.6 Reporting and Fixing Bugs: The Five R's 10.7 The Plan-And-Document Perspective on Managing Teams	8.5 CHIPS: Rspec on Rails Opens: Tues 10/26 Due: Wed 11/10 8.9 CHIPS: The Acceptance Test/Unit Test Cycle Opens: Fri, 11/12 Due: Fri, 12/10 (Team Project) 10.5 CHIPS: Agile Iterations Checkpoint 1 Opens: Sat, 11/13 Checkpoint 1 Due: Mon, 11/22
Week 12 [11/8 - 11/14]	11.1 Patterns, Antipatterns, and SOLID Class Architecture 11.2 Just Enough UML 11.3 Single Responsibility Principle 11.4 Open/Closed Principle 11.5 Liskov Substitution Principle 11.6 Injection of Dependencies Principle 11.7 Demeter Principle 11.8 The Plan-And-Document Perspective on Design Patterns	8.9 CHIPS: The Acceptance Test/Unit Test Cycle Opens: Wed, 11/3 Due: Fri, 11/12 (Team Project) 10.5 CHIPS: Agile Iterations Checkpoint 2 Opens: Mon, 11/8 Checkpoint 1 & 2 Due: Mon, 11/22
Week 13 [11/15 - 11/21]	12.1 From Development to Deployment 12.2 Three-Tier Architecture 12.3 Responsiveness, Service Level Objectives, and Apdex 12.4 Releases and Feature Flags 12.5 Monitoring and Finding Bottlenecks 12.6 Improving Rendering and Database Performance With Caching 12.7 Avoiding Abusive Database Queries 12.9 Security: Defending Customer Data in Your App 12.10 The Plan-And-Document Perspective on Operations	Quiz 4: Modules 7, 8 and 9 on Tues 11/16
Week 14 [11/22 - 11/28]		(Team Project) 10.5 CHIPS: Agile Iterations Checkpoint 1 & 2 Due: Mon, 11/22 Checkpoint 3 Opens: Mon, 11/22 Checkpoint 3 Due: Sat, 12/4
Week 15 [11/29 - 12/5]		Quiz 5: Modules 10, 11 and 12 on Tues 11/30 Team Project) 10.5 CHIPS: Agile Iterations Checkpoint 3 Opens: Mon, 11/22 Checkpoint 3 Due: Sat, 12/4
Week 16 [12/6 - 12/12]	RRR Week
Week 17 [12/13 - 12/17]	Finals' Week	Final Examination on Tues, December 14 at 8am (Remote option available for students who are not able to make it on campus)