CS375: Software Engineering

Bill Mongan

Welcome to CS375!

About Me

• Born in Delaware County, PA
• Married in Carmel, CA in 2015

About Me

• Upper Darby High School Class of 2000
• Drexel University Class of 2005
• Completed my PhD at Drexel in 2018

About Me

• I am a private pilot who loves to travel

About Me

• We love animals and have two cats
• … plus some occasional visitors!

About Me

• I use computing (specifically Machine Learning and Signal Processing)…
  • To improve public health
  • To leverage technology to mitigate side-effects and to improve access to care

What this Course is About

• How do we build large software systems?
• How can we work together efficiently on distributed teams?
• How do we organize our work and our time?

What this Course is About

• We need systems and techniques!
  • Tools to manage our code
  • Tools to automate testing
  • Protocols and expectations to work together
  • Methods to estimate time and task dependencies
  • Best practices to design software systems for collaborative development

What this Course is About

• Have you ever written a prototype and thought it was easy?
  • Was it hard to scale it for others to use?
  • Why?

Class Logistics and Culture

• Class website and syllabus: http://www.billmongan.com/Ursinus-CS375
• Challenging but fun!
• Communicate with me and the TA’s often - we enjoy it.
• If you know stuff, use it for good to help others!