UCLA CS 130: Software Engineering (Spring 2023)

Table of contents

1. Course description
2. Important links
3. Instructors
4. Lectures
5. Discussions / TAs
6. Prerequisites
7. Textbook and Readings
8. Class project
9. Exams
10. Grading
11. Academic Honesty
12. Class Schedule

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Course description

Principles relevant to creating large-scale software projects as opposed to small one-person efforts. The class emphasizes scalable software engineering practices, teamwork, processes, and tools. The core of this class is a team project to implement and deploy a web server in C++.

Important links

Code Review (Git/Gerrit)

https://code.cs130.org

Piazza discussions

https://piazza.com/ucla/spring2023/cs130

E-mail instructors

ucla-cs130-admin@googlegroups.com

Instructors

Michael Burns

mbx@g.ucla.edu

Alex Monroe

alexrmonroe@gmail.com

Philo Juang

pjuang@google.com

Lectures

Class

Mondays and Wednesdays
6pm - 7:50pm
Franz Hall Room 1178

Office hours

Book on calendar or e-mail instructors to schedule.

Discussions / TAs

TA

Apoorv Garg apoorvgarg17@g.ucla.edu

Office hours

Friday
10a - 12p
Zoom

TA

Arvind Vepa arvind.m.vepa@gmail.com

Office hours

Thursday
7p - 9p
Zoom

TA

Fabrice Harel-Canada FabriceYHC@gmail.com

Office hours

Tuesday / Thursday
1p - 2p
Zoom

TA

Steven Gong nikepupu9@gmail.com

Office hours

Friday
10a to 12p
Boelter 3256S-B

Prerequisites

• CS111: Operating Systems
• CS131: Programming Languages
• (Suggested) CS118: Networking

Textbook and Readings

• (Suggested) Kernighan and Pike, The Practice of Programming
• Additional readings on the web

Class project

During this course you will join a team of other students and complete a project in which you will jointly develop a configurable, scalable server and deploy it for public access on Google Cloud with appropriate logging and monitoring. The goal of this is to learn and practice sound development practices including thoughtful API design, maintainable coding style, automated testing, and peer code review.

Assignments will be posted on this website each Monday after noon for specific milestones of the project, and will be due the following Monday morning by 11:59PM, submitted via online form. Students will be graded on their individual contributions for each assignment, as well as the health of the project and the functionality of the server.

Assignment topics include:

• Repository setup, Unit tests, Code reviews (individual assignment)
• Simple echo server, Deployment
• Continuous build, Test coverage, Web server testing
• Serving static files
• API proposal and presentation (no late work accepted)
• Refactoring
• Reverse proxy, Threading
• Self and peer evaluations (individual assignment)

Exams

Exam questions will be drawn from lectures, readings, and assignments. Exam structure is TBD due to remote teaching.

Grading

Course grade breakdown:

Assignments

70%

Midterm

15%

Final

15%

Work and exams will be graded on an absolute scale.

A curve may be applied, but only to students’ benefit (your grade will never decrease as a result of a curve)

Academic Honesty

For exams, presentations, and written work (other than code), normal standards of academic honesty apply, as outlined in the UCLA Student Conduct Code.

For computer code, reading and adapting publically available code is encouraged, and in some cases may be necessary. You must cite your source in a comment, in the form of a URL.

Class Schedule

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