System analysis and desing

School of Engineering

Class location:   2pm-4pm         Lab location: TBA

Instructor: Yi Zhang (yiz+ism58 @ soe.ucsc.edu ; Office hours: 11am-12pm Thursday

( Office: Room 565, Engineering Building 2)

 

Teach assistant:  Jian Wang (jwang30 @ soe.ucsc.edu  Office hours: 2-3pm Monday E2-475)

 

 WebCT (homework submission)

Required Textbook :

 

ISAD: Introduction to System Analysis and Design by Whitten, Bentley, Dittman (First Ediction)

 

Recommended Readings:

The Unified Software Development Process by Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh

Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres

VoiceXML 10 Projects to Voice Enable Your Web Site by Mark Miller

Giving a talk  

General technical writing guidance

Teaching Assistants:

Grading: Grades will be based on:

 

Item	Due Date	Value
	Due	Value
Class participation	Each class	6%
Pop Quizzes	3 per quarter	9%
Presentation	assigned	5%
Weekly assignment	Every week	20%
Midterm		20%
Course project		20%
Final exam		20%

Home work policy

Submit your homework online at WebCT

Late submission will not be accepted by the system

Re-grading policy

After the grades are available, you have 1 week to request re-grading. After 1 week, the course staff may not be able to carry re-grading out (Re-grading may result higher or lower grades)

 

If you can not attend a lecture, please email the instructor before the class

You will fail if missing more than 2 lectures

If you miss a lecture, please read the course material, write an abstract,  and email the abstract to the TA and cc the instructor before the next class starts. Otherwise you lose 2 points

 

Collaboration on Homework:

· Homework should be done individually: each student must hand in their own answers. It is acceptable, however, for students to collaborate in figuring out answers and helping each other solve the problems. You must write down on each homework the names of  students with whom you collaborated.