F21-Software Design (COSC 4353/6353)

Syllabus

You can find the syllabus at the following link.

Project

Students will pitch software products to build, and we will vote to select N/2 software products, where N is the number of students.

Project Themes

• IT professional Turnover [New]

• Assistive Technologies with emphasis on Seniors or Software Developers (Examples: https://www.ventureradar.com/startup/Assistive)

• Health Equity (Examples: https://medcitynews.com/2021/05/jj-village-capital-unveil-12-startups-building-culturally-competent-care-in-new-accelerator/)

• Smart Cities (Examples: https://startupill.com/the-top-83-smart-cities-startups-to-watch-out-for-in-2021/)

There are various resources that you can use for the project, below is just a small list

• Programmable Web: https://www.programmableweb.com/

• Houston Smart City: https://houstontx.gov/smartcity/

• On-campus resources: https://www.uh.edu/research/about/centers-and-institutes/

• Bayou Startup Showcase

Reading

Required:

• (SP) Theory: Engineering Software Products; An introduction to modern software engineering, Ian Sommerville. (Presentations and videos)

• (SS) Practice: Engineering Software as a Service; An Agile Approach using Cloud Computing, Armando Fox, and David Patterson. (Videos and Resources)

Recommended:

• (CC) Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, Robert C. Martin et al.

• (PP) The Pragmatic Programmer, David Thomas, Andrew Hunt

• Head First Design Patterns Eric Freeman, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates, and Elisabeth Robson

Schedule

Link to the class schedule

Assignments

Check Teams

Groups

TBD

Case Studies

1. Audible https://www.audible.com/

2. Libby https://libbyapp.com/welcome

3. Fidelity https://www.fidelity.com/

4. Robinhood https://robinhood.com/us/en/

5. Stash https://www.stash.com/

6. Trello https://trello.com/home

7. MeisterTask https://www.meistertask.com/

8. Monday.com https://monday.com/

9. My H.E.B. https://www.heb.com/

10. AliExpress https://www.aliexpress.com/

11. OverStock https://www.overstock.com/

12. WalMart https://www.walmart.com/

13. Signal https://signal.org/en/

14. WeChat https://www.wechat.com/

15. Ablo https://ablo.live/

16. SnapChat https://www.snapchat.com/

17. Calm https://www.calm.com/

18. HeadSpace https://www.headspace.com/

19. Shine https://www.theshineapp.com/