Foundations of Software Engineering (Fall 2025)

• Instructor: Dr Scott Fleming
• Section: COMP-7012-001
• Syllabus
• Canvas
• Skills Assignment Instructions
• Project Instructions

Schedule

Mon 8/25

• Intro to the Course (slides)
• Course Syllabus Introduced
• Course Homepage Introduced
• Canvas Introduced
• Teams Introduced

Wed 8/27

• Skills Assignment SA1 Introduced
• Ruby Basics Activity

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Mon 9/1 • SA1

• Labor Day (No Class)

Wed 9/3 • SA1

• Object-Oriented Programming in Ruby Activity

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Mon 9/8 • SA2

• Skills Assignment SA2 Introduced
• HTML (slides)
• HTML Basics Activity

Wed 9/10 • SA2

• HTTP (slides)
• Rails MVC (slides)
• SA2-PT Practice Test

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Mon 9/15 • SA3

• Skills Assignment SA3 Introduced
• Databases and the MVC Model (slides)
• Model Basics Activity

Wed 9/17 • SA3

• How a Basic Webpage Request Is Processed (slides)
• SA3-PT Practice Test

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Mon 9/22 • SA4

• How an Index Webpage Request Is Processed (slides)
• Skills Assignment SA4 Introduced
• RESTful Resources (slides)

Wed 9/24 • SA4

• SA4-PT Practice Test

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Mon 9/29 • SA5

• How New/Create Form Requests Are Processed (slides)
• Skills Assignment SA5 Introduced
• MVC Model Associations (slides)
• Model Associations Activity
• Teammate Requests (Optional) Introduced

Wed 10/1 • SA5

• SA5-PT Practice Test

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Mon 10/6 • SA6

• Skills Assignment SA6 Introduced
• Version Control with Git (slides)
• Git Basics Activity

Wed 10/8 • SA6

• Merging Branches in Git (slides)
• Git Merging Activity

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Mon 10/13

• Fall Break (No Class)

Wed 10/15

• Remote Git Repositories and GitHub (slides)
• GitHub Activity

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Mon 10/20 • M0

• Software Project Introduced
• Project Concepts Introduced
• Milestone M0 Introduced
• Software Requirements (slides)
• Meet Your Team and Get to Work on the User Stories, Scenarios, and Storyboards Activity

Wed 10/22 • M0

• Project Grading Introduced
• Continue User Stories, Scenarios, and Storyboards Activity

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Mon 10/27 • M0

• Continue User Stories, Scenarios, and Storyboards Activity

Wed 10/29 • M0

• Individual Activity: Model Class Diagram Activity
• Team Activity: M0 Model Design Diagram Activity

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Mon 11/3 • M0

• Software Engineering Process (slides)
• M1 Pull Request Plans Activity

Wed 11/5 • M0

• M0 Teammate Reviews Introduced
• Milestone M1 Introduced
• Project Workflow Instructions Introduced
• Project Workflow Activity

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Mon 11/10 • M1

• Controller Testing Activity

Wed 11/12 • M1

• M1 Demo Video and Report Introduced
• Controller Testing Activity 2

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Mon 11/17 • M1

• Software Testing (slides)
• Controller Testing Activity 3

Wed 11/19 • M1

• Milestone M2 Introduced

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Mon 11/24 • M2

• Model Inheritance and Generalization (slides)

Wed 11/26 • M2

• Thanksgiving Holidays (No Class)

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Mon 12/1 • M2

• Software Design Patterns (slides)

Wed 12/3 • M2

• M2 Live In-Class Demo Session Introduced

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Mon 12/8 • M2

• Exams Week (No Class)

Wed 12/6 • M2

• ⚠ In-Class Project Demo Session ⚠
• Exams Week—Special Meeting Time: 1:00–3:00
• Attendance required!