The material in this course will be conveyed and evaluated in three complementary ways. Percent of final grade is in parentheses:

• Readings Preparation, Lecture, and Dialog (50%). We will be reading dozens of ground-breaking articles, some basic material from Ghezzi et al., and one book. You should pursue outside readings as your interests lead you, and as your project requires. Your grade in this portion will be determined by your preparation and participation during lectures and discussion, so come prepared to discuss or use the material for at least the primary sources for the day's lecture. Participation in mailing list discussions, giving class presentations, or acting as a class discussant (facilitator) also count towards participation.

  I will be collecting your annotated readings (or notes) after class as part of your grade. I will also use this to track your attendance, and hence to a significant degree your participation. If you miss class, I will accept your notes for up to 3 classes. Please make copies if you want to have your notes for immediate reference.

• Project (50%). To make the concepts in the papers concrete and develop your software engineering skills, we will be developing small software products in teams. Each week there will be a milestone. Your grade on the project will be determined by the quality of your work on each milestone. Should the grade on a milestone be below an A-, you can resubmit that milestone one week later for a regrade (for a maximum grade of A-). Product delivery is only one milestone, so producing a running program is only a small part of the grade. This is a team project, and you will be graded largely as a team. All team members are responsible for the healthy functioning of the team. However, I will ask each of you to evaluate your teammates at the end of the course. The score for this evaluation will count the equivalent of one milestone.

  At the conclusion of the quarter I will be asking each of you for an assessment of your team members as well as yourself.