Projekt DV (Project CS) 2011

This page describes the course Projekt DV/Project CS, in which the students develop software for distributed systems. The aim of the course is to give insights into how a big project is run (from planning to realization), how to construct a complex distributed system and to give hands-on experience on modern construction principles and programming methods.

Here is a link to the formal course plan (in Swedish).

In the fall of 2011, we run two sub projects in parallel - one defined by Mobile Arts, and one by Erlang solutions. Both involve programming in Erlang, a concurrency/process oriented programming language. You will use a so called agile software development method, introduced and supervised by Klarna.

• Olle Gällmo (course responsibility, examinator)
• Muneeb Khan (course assistant)
• Karl Marklund (course assistant)

• 4407 and 4408, top floor, building 4

• Jan Henry Nyström, Erlang Solutions
• Lars Kari, Martin Kjellin Mobile Arts
• Gustaf Naeser, Klarna (Scrum project methodology specialist)

• Erlang Programming, Francesco Cesarini & Simon Thompson, O'Reilly 2009, ISBN 978-0-596-51818-9
• Scrum and XP from the trenches, Henrik Kniberg, available online

Project management and software development:

• Projects in Computing and Information Systems, A Student's Guide, Christian W. Dawson, second edition, Addison Wesley, ISBN 978-0-273-72131-4
• Agile Retrospectives: Making good teams great, Esther Derby, Diana Larsen & Ken Schwaber, Pragmatic Bookshelf 2006, ISBN 0-9776166-4-9
• Agile Project Management with Scrum, Ken Schwaber, ISBN10 073561993X, ISBN13 9780735619937
• Agile Software Development with Scrum, Robert C. Martin, Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle, ISBN10 0130676349, ISBN13 9780130676344
• [1] (Scrum cartoons)
• [2] (on the dangers of doing Scrum the wrong way)
• The SCRUM checklist
• The BART System of Group and Organizational Analysis - an article by Green and Molenkamp, 2005.
• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code, by Joel Spolsky, and an interesting comment to this from an agile perspective.

Erlang:

• Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent Worldby Joe Armstrong.
• Programming Rules and Conventions.

A selection of technical reports from previous editions of this course:

• 2010
  • Open MSC course report, product report
  • TrapExit course report, product report
• 2009
  • LoPec course report, product report
  • Cookie Cart course report, product report
• 2008
  • Green Fox: course report, product report
  • Instant Message Office: course report, product report
• 2007: Fuatara
• 2006: Developing a location based service for mobile phones, Teazle Goes Mobile
• 2005: Project Avatar Developing a Distributed Mobile Phone Game, Developing A-GPS as a Student Project

Here are some instructions on what you are expected to hand in to pass the course

The course is mainly given in project form. Full-time means full-time, essentially office hours 8-17. Attendance is mandatory!

Planned lectures and other special course events will be posted continually below:

• Monday Aug 29, 13.15-17.00, Room 1245, Course starts
  • Introduction to the course (Olle Gällmo)
  • GSM assignment presentation (Mobile Arts)
  • Diplomacy assignment presentation (Erlang Solutions)
• Tuesday Aug 30, room setup, computer checkout and installation.
  • Computers should be collected from the cellar in building 1, at 10.15.
  • Arrange 4407 as a lecture hall, but with computers on the tables.
  • Read up on last years student reports, in particular the course reports.
  • Useful stuff to install on your computers: Erlang, Git, Rebar, Agner, the Ubuntu package build-essential (includes gcc, make osv), and of course your favourite text editor (Emacs, presumably)
• Wednesday Aug 31, 9.00, Group dynamics with Gustaf Naeser (Klarna).
• Thursday Sep 1 9.00 - Monday Sep 5, Erlang workshop with Henry Nyström & Gustav Simonsson
• Tuesday Sep 6, Erlang lab day
• Wednesday Sep 7 - Friday Sep 9, Erlang OTP with Henry Nyström & Gustav Simonsson
• Wednesday Sep 7 19-21 Pool night!
• Monday Sep 12, Workshop on useful software developments tools
• Tuesday Sep 13, Recap presentations of project proposals. The project groups are formed.
• Wednesday Sep 14, Agile project methodology with Gustaf Naeser (Klarna).
• Tuesday Sep 20, 10.15, Polacksbacken aula, Some of our students present this course and the projects to the first year undergraduate students.
• Monday Oct 10, 13.15, Individual discussions 1, with the Diplomacy project.
• Tuesday Oct 11, 13.15, Individual discussions 1, with the GSM project.
• Tuesday Nov 1, 10.00, EUC poster preview (internal event, but we may invite one or two externals)
• Thursday Nov 3, Erlang User Conference
  • Both groups presented their projects on posters on the EUC conference
  • The GSM project's poster
  • The Diplomacy project's poster
• Wednesday Nov 23, 13.15, Individual discussions 2, with the GSM project.
• Thursday Nov 24, 13.15, Individual discussions 2, with the Diplomacy project.
• Thursday Dec 15, 13.15 - 15.00, room 1311, Review 2
  • Both groups present their results (oral presentations) to the other group, and to invited external reviewers. The room is available from 10.00.
• December 22 - January 1, Christmas break
• Thursday Jan 12, 13.15 in room P1211, Public presentation of project results
• Friday Jan 13, Last day of the project (clean house, hand in computers and reports etc)