Performance and Test, Spring 2008

Breaking News

June 8: The question and answer session is canceled since we have received very few questions. If you think of any questions later, you are very welcome to send them by email: either to both Dan and Kristian, or to the mailing list (preferred).
June 6: The exam schedule is online.
April 29: The slides from the exam preparation lecture are now online.
April 19: The course curriculum is now online.
April 11: Today's lecture with information about the oral exam is in Room 3A14, starting at 10:00.
April 3: The common supervisor meeting this week will be Friday, 13:00 to 16:00, in Room 3A52.
March 13: The lecture on Friday, March 14 will be in Room 2A20, from 9:00 to 11:00.
March 6: The exercise session on Friday, March 14 will be from 11:30 to 14:30.
February 14: Updated the schedule - all lectures Friday morning are now from 9:00 to 11:00.
February 6: Added practical information about written assignments (see below).
January 23: Course website created.

Time and Place

Lectures: Wednesday 9:00-11:00 and Friday 09:00-11:00, Room 3A14 (mostly).

Tutorials: Wednesday 11:00-12:00, Room 3A14, and Friday 13:00-16:00, Room 3A52 (mostly).

The lectures and exercises use 8 hours of your time a week (for most of the weeks). You are expected to use 20 hours a week on average on this course.

Teachers	Office
Lecturers
Dan Witzner Hansen (witzner at itu.dk)	3D08
Kristian Støvring (kss at itu.dk)	4C12
Teaching assistant
Jonas Hubert (jonashubert at itu.dk)

You are welcome with any problems, concerns, questions etc. regarding the contents, organization, style etc. of the course including exercises and the project. Contact the teachers any time you can catch them.

This course was originally designed by Henrik Reif Andersen, Peter Tiedemann, and Andrzej Wąsowski.

Textbooks

[RS] Robert Sedgewick. Algorithms in Java (Parts 1-5). 3rd edition. Addison Wesley Professional 2004. ISBN: 0201775786. Available in IT-bogladen in the atrium.

[MS] John D. McGregor. David A. Sykes. A Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software. 1st Edition. Addison Wesley Professional 2001. ISBN: 0201325640. Available in IT-bogladen.

Programming Project

A group programming project will start approximately in the middle of the course. The project report is the main deliverable of the course.

Assignments

We will post tasks for written assignments along with the lectures. These assignments are independent of the main programming project. An instructor will correct your assignments and give you feedback. The assignments are mandatory, and the deadlines will be strict.

The deadlines for handing in assignments will be posted each time on the website, but the general rule (that holds most of the time) is that the hand-ins are due on Wednesday, before 11:00 on the week following the exercises on the topic. You can hand in at the beginning of the lecture Wednesday morning, or at any other time in the course pigeon hole, in front of the study administration. We only accept hard copies (manuscripts are encouraged, printouts are allowed).

We encourage groups of two persons working together on a hand-in. Three is also possible, but less optimal.

Newsgroup

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