CS48—Computer Science Project

A course taught in the Dept. of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara

The official catalog course description is:

Computer Science Project

Number: CMPSC 48
Level: Undergraduate
Units: 4

Prerequisite: Computer Science 32 with a grade of C or better. Team-based project development. Topics include software engineering and professional development practices, interface design, advanced library support; techniques for team-oriented design and development, testing and test-driven development, and software reliability and robustness. Students present and demonstrate final projects.

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• Agile—A Software Development Methodology
• Agile: Standups—A timeboxed standing meeting to help team make progress
• Agile: Team Norms—Groundrules set by a team that promote effective and harmonious teamwork and productivty
• Agile: User Stories—As a (who?) I can (what?) so that (why?)
• Ant—Apache Ant, a build tool for Java (similar to Make/Makefiles)
• Antipatterns: —Things to avoid in your code
• Antipatterns: inheritance—When NOT to use inheritance
• APIs: —Application Programming Intefaces
• APIs: Free—Some APIs that offer free access
• Applications Programming—A compendium of knowledge and skills applications programmers (software developers) need
• Bug Reports—The typical format: STR, observed, desired
• Changelog—A Software Development Methodology
• CI: —Continuous Integration--automatically testing after every commit
• Code Review—A team activity to improve the code base and the product
• Code Smells—Common problems that arise in code
• Code Style—formatting, indenting, names, and much more
• Code Style: astyle—automatic code indenting tool available on CSIL
• Course Policies—Explanations of why certain instructors do things they way they do them.
• Course Policies: Answer Keys—Why do you not provide answer keys for all your old exams?
• CSIL—Computer Science Instructional Lab machines
• CSIL: browser from command line—How to open a browser from the command line
• CSIL: disk quota and file quota issues—How to diagnose and fix
• CSIL: git configuration—Configuring your CSIL account to use git
• CSIL: Remote Host Id Changed—The scary REMOTE HOST ID CHANGED message with mention of SOMETHING NASTY
• CSIL: ssh port forwarding—How to access webapps running on CSIL from your local machine
• CSIL: via ssh from Linux—Connecting via ssh from the command line
• CSIL: Via MacOS—Accessing CSIL from your MacOS system
• CSIL: via ssh from Windows—Connecting via PuTTY/XMing or MobaXterm
• Data—Various sources for datasets to build applications with
• Design: —Waterfall, Agile, Rational Unified Process, etc.
• Design Patterns—software structures that are easier to change
• Design Patterns: Strategy—Define multiple algorithms and let client application pass the algorithm to be used as a parameter.
• Eclipse—One of several choices for a Java IDE
• Enviroment Variables—Reading them from Java code
• Firebase—A Google sponsored app development platform
• Frameworks—Software that helps you write other software
• Game Programming—How to make Java work for Games
• Gauchospace: Clickable URLs—In assignment submissions, urls should be clickable
• git and github—version control, source code configuration and project collaboration tools
• git: basic workflow—The basics: git add..., git commit..., git push ...
• git: cloning your first repo—A guide for those new to git
• git: commit messages—How to write clear and helpful commit messages
• git: feature branch workflow—One branch per feature/issue/story
• git: git/github troubleshooting—Various problems and their solution
• git: .gitignore files—What they are for and what to put in them
• git: merge conflicts—Not nearly as scary as you may have been told
• git: overview—An introduction. git vs. github.com vs. github.ucsb.edu, repos, etc.
• git: throwaway untracked files—how to clean up untracked files easily
• github: adding collaborators—giving individual users access to a private repo
• github: api—Java Api for Github
• github: branch protection—making sure PRs to master get code reviewed, for example
• github.com: creating private repos under an organization—for closed source class assignments
• github: issues—working with issues in github
• github: keyboard shortcuts—making the github web UI easier to use
• github: pro tips—A few extras to help you work with GitHub more effectively
• github: using ssh keys—generating public/private key pair, uploading public key to github
• github: ucsb-cs-github-linker—Using the local tool to join a course organization
• github.ucsb.edu: creating private repos under an organization—for closed source class assignments
• github: verified badge on commits—adding extra security to your commit messages
• Google:—Using Google Products in CS48
• Google: Cloud Credits—What they are good for, and how you can get them
• Google: Developer Console—The place you configure OAuth, APIs, etc.
• Gradescope—System for homework grading, feedback and submission
• Gradescope: Organization Access—How to enable access to organization repos
• Gradescope: Regrade Requests—What to do if you have questions about the grading of a problem (e.g. you think there was a grading error)
• Gradescope: Student Self-Submission—Scanning your assignment to PDF
• Heroku—A cloud computing platform
• Heroku: Troubleshooting—Solutions to common problems and errors
• IDEs for Java—Integrated Development Environments for Java (IntelliJ, Eclipse, Netbeans, etc.)
• JDBC—Java Database Connectivity--a way to use SQL-based databases with Java
• Jekyll—Creating web sites (like this one) on github-pages using Markdown
• JSON: —JavaScript Object Notation
• JSON: Jackson—A Java Package for processing JSON
• Kanban: —visualization of work in progress
• localhost—What does it mean to run a web server on localhost?
• Lombok: —Automatic generation of getters/setters, etc.
• MacOS—Setting up an environment to do CS56 work on your own Mac (not ssh'ing into CSIL)
• MacOS: Homebrew—Package installer for Mac OS
• Markdown—A simplified syntax to create formatted documents
• Maven—A build tool for Java plus a package manager
• Minimum Viable Product (MVP)—Simplest thing that a customer would actually use
• MongoDB—A particular NoSQL database platform
• MongoDB: Cloud Atlas Setup—Setting up MongoDB Cloud Atlas (for new users)
• MongoDB: Cloud Atlas Sharing—Sharing a Cloud Atlas Setup
• MongoDB: Mlab—A cloud provider of MongoDB databases with a free tier
• MongoDB: NextJS Guide—How database operations in NextJS differ from examples in standard node
• MongoDB: NextJS Setup—Configurig your NextJS app for MongoDB
• MongoDB: Spring Properties—How to set properties for connecting to MongoDB when using Spring
• Node—A JavaScript based backend web framework
• OAuth—The way we implement the 'login with Google, Facebook, or Github' thing you see on some websites
• OAuth: Authorizing GitHub Third Party Apps—Gradescope, and GitHub OAuth Apps you build yourself
• OAuth: GitHub Setup—Setting up a GitHub OAuth App to obtain client id and client secret
• OAuth: Google Setup—Setting up a Google OAuth App to obtain client id and client secret
• OOP—Object Oriented Programming
• Personas—Ficticious users of our product that help us develop our stories
• PL: —Programming Languages (comparisons, analysis)
• Port Numbers—Those numbers such as 8080, 12345 that show up when doing networking things
• Postgres—An implementation of an SQL relational database, available on Heroku
• Postman—A tool for testing HTTP based APIs
• Python: OpenCV—Installing OpenCV for Python
• React—A front-end framework for webapps and native apps
• Refactoring—
• REST—RESTful APIs, etc (Representational State Transfer)
• Retros: —The heart of agile is inspect and adapt; retrospective meetings ('retros') help make sure we do that
• Retros: Darby/Larsen Five Step Retro—(1) Set Stage, (2) Gather Data, (3) Generate Insights, (4) Decide What To Do, (5) Close Retro
• Retros: Stop-Start-Continue—A three step formula for running a retro
• Scrum—A Software Development Methodology
• Selenium—Remote Control of a Browser (e.g. for end-to-end testing of webapps, web scraping)
• Selenium: Driver Setup—Setting up your driver
• Semantic Versioning—A set of rules for assigning meaningful version numbers
• Slack—A chat-based communication tool for teams
• Sockets—An abstraction used in networking
• Software Engineering—What is meant by this term?
• Spring Boot: —A Java web application framework
• SQL—SQL-based relational databases (sqlite3, Postgres, MySQL, etc.)
• Style—Standards and Tools for Code Style
• $T and $B—Using environment variables to make navigating a src tree less painful
• TDD: (Test Driven Development)—General information about best practices
• Teams: —Information about working in teams
• Teamwork—Practices for setting up a harmonious and productive team
• Test Driven Development (TDD)—General information about best practices
• Testing—Everything having to do with testing: Unit testing, Integration Testing, Test Coverage
• Testing: Acceptance Testing—Criteria for being 'done' with an issue
• Testing: Agile Testing (Crispin and Gregory)—Material from the book by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
• Testing: Automation—How to make testing an automatic part of your process
• Testing: End to End Testing—Intro to End to End Testing, and Framework Specific Examples
• Testing: Jacoco Reports—How to interpret the reports (red, yellow, green)
• Testing: Jacoco via Maven—Setting up Jacoco test coverage, using Maven
• Testing: Unit Testing with Jest—Setting up Jest for Next.JS projects
• Testing: Mocking—Intro to Mocking in Tests, and Framework-specific Examples
• UML—Unified Modeling Language: A graphical language for software design
• Unix (and Linux)—A variety of resources related to Unix and Linux, esp. command line tools
• Unix: Misc tools—Various useful command line tools you may not know about
• Unix: Search/Replace across multiple files—from the command line, using grep, sed, etc.
• User Stories: —As a (who?) I can (what?) so that (why?)
• User Stories: INVEST—Good user stories are: Indepenent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimatable, Small and Testable
• vim—a widely used text editor among Unix users
• vim: basic eight—eight things you need to know how to do for your survival
• vim: customization—customizing vim for your purposes
• vscode—Visual Studio Code, a lightweight free editor from Microsoft with many IDE features
• Waterfall—A model of the Software Design Life Cycle (SDLC) from the 1970s
• Windows—Setting up an environment to do CS56 work on your own Windows machine (not ssh'ing into CSIL)
• Windows: WSL—Setting up the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
• X11—Dealing with X11 DISPLAY issues
• YAML—An alternative to XML and JSON for representing structured data in a machine and human readable format
• Zoom—Teleconferencing tool

• Code Style: astyle—automatic code indenting tool available on CSIL
• Code Style: checkstyle—code style checker
• CSV files—Comma Separated Value files, and processing them in Java
• Databases—SQL, Postgres, H2, etc
• gitignore for Maven—An example gitignore for Java Maven projects
• Heroku—A cloud computing platform
• Heroku: Troubleshooting—Solutions to common problems and errors
• Java—The language that is the basis of the Spring web framework
• Java: Annotations—All about those funny @ things that precede methods
• Java: ArrayList to array—e.g. ArrayList<Integer> to int []
• Java: Codacy—A static analysis tool for Java
• Java: Command Line Arguments—how to the access contents of (String [] args)
• Java: == vs. .equals(), and hashCode()—the difference, and how to override .equals and .hashCode()
• Java: HttpURLConnection—And HttpsURLConnection; a Java object for retrieving content from a URL
• Java: Installing—Installing Java 11
• Java: JAR files—Creating and using .jar files
• Java: JVM—The Java Virtual Machine
• Java: Lambda Expressions—Shorter, cleaner code using anonymous functions
• Java: Overriding vs. Overloading—The difference between these
• Java: Plaform Independent Newlines—\n isn't as portable as you might like
• Java: Sorting—Comparable, Comparators, and sorting ArrayLists and such
• Java: static analysis—Tools that analyze source code without running it
• Java: Streams in Java 8 —A whole new style of programming
• Java: Unchecked Operations—That message that says blah.java uses unchecked or unsafe operations. Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
• Java: Web Applications—Overview of various frameworks (Servlets, Spring, Apache Spark-Java)
• Javadoc—Documentation generator for java
• Javadoc: Legacy Code Projects—step-by-step instructions for javadoc for UCSB-CS56-Projects
• javadoc: publishing to github pages from a private repo (the old way)—step-by-step instructions
• javadoc: publishing to github pages from a private repo—step-by-step instructions
• javadoc: publishing to github pages from a public repo—step-by-step instructions
• JDBC—Java Database Connectivity--a way to use SQL-based databases with Java
• JSON: Jackson—A Java Package for processing JSON
• JUnit—Unit testing framework for Java
• JUnit: Hamcrest Matcher style—A different style of writing assertions for Unit testing
• JUnit: Mocking System.out—How do you write a JUnit test for a method that uses System.out?
• Log4J: —A logging framework for java
• Log4J: SparkJava—Using Log4J with SparkJava
• Log4J: Spring Boot—Using Log4J with Spring Boot
• Lombok: —Automatic generation of getters/setters, etc.
• MacOS—Setting up an environment to do CS56 work on your own Mac (not ssh'ing into CSIL)
• Maven—A build tool for Java plus a package manager
• Maven: Adding custom jar dependency—Including a jar file that isn't available as a standard Maven dependency
• Maven: Convert Ant to Maven—replacing ant build.xml with maven pom.xml
• Maven: FAQ—Frequently Asked Questions
• Maven: Hello World—A relatively simple Hello World app with Maven
• Maven: Installing—on Windows, Mac, Linux
• Maven: Javadoc—Generating javadoc when using Maven
• Maven: Managing Versions—How do you get the right version for dependencies, plugins, etc.
• Maven: Pom.xml Order—In what order should the elements of a pom.xml appear
• Maven: Profiles—Making your pom.xml do different things on localhost vs heroku, for example
• Maven: Testing—Doing JUnit testing and other testing using mvn test, mvn verify, etc.
• Maven: Xlint options—For example, what to do when you get `Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details`
• MongoDB: Spring Properties—How to set properties for connecting to MongoDB when using Spring
• Spring Boot: —A Java web application framework
• Spring Boot: Actuator—Checking the endpoint mappings, health or other info about your Spring Boot app
• Spring Boot: Application Properties—Defining the application.properties
• Spring Boot: ControllerAdvice—A place to factor out common ExceptionHandler, ModelAttribute and InitBinder code across multiple controllers
• Spring Boot: CSV—Downloading and Uploading CSV files with Spring Boot
• Spring Boot: Database Migrations—When you need to make a change to your database schema for an app in progress
• Spring Boot: Heroku—Tips for running with Spring Boot applications on Heroku
• Spring Boot: Logging—How to write information to the log in Spring Boot
• Spring Boot: OAuth—How to implement OAuth for authentication in Spring Boot
• Spring Boot: POST and CSRF—If you get 403 forbidden messages when using POST
• Spring Boot: Postgres—Using Spring Boot with Postgres
• Spring Boot: RestTemplate—When you need to access other APIs from the backend of your Spring Boot Application
• Spring Boot: Secrets—Ways of keepings database credentials and OAuth client secrets out of Github
• Spring Boot: Security—Authentication, Authorization and other Security issues
• Spring Boot: Sessions—How to make the stateless HTTP protocol stateful
• Spring Boot: SQL—Working with SQL and Databases in Spring Boot
• Spring Boot: VS Code—Suggested VS Code extensions for working with Spring Boot
• Testing—Testing topics
• Testing: Integration Testing with Maven—When you want to run the integration tests
• Testing: Jacoco Reports—How to interpret the reports (red, yellow, green)
• Testing: Jacoco via Maven—Setting up Jacoco test coverage, using Maven
• Testing: Spring Boot Annotations—When to use certain annotations and what they do
• Testing: Spring Boot HTMLUnit—Testing Spring Boot Webapps
• Thymeleaf—A Templating Engine for Spring Boot

• Bower—A general Package Manger for web app components
• Browserify—Package up npm modules into a js file you can include on client side web page
• Heroku—Deploying next.js apps on Heroku
• JavaScript—Getting Started with Learning JavaScript
• JavaScript: this—The this keyword in JavaScript
• JQuery—A library that makes JavaScript easier to use.
• MacOS—MacOS specific advice for working with Next.js, Node, React
• Next.js—A framework based on node and React
• Node—Making web apps using server-side JavaScript using node.js
• Node: Linux—Installing and working with Node, npm, nvm on Linux
• Node: MacOS—Installing and working with Node, npm, nvm on MacOS
• Node: Windows—Installing and working with Node, npm, nvm on Windows
• React—A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
• React: Storybook—A tool for cataloging, documenting and testing React components
• Testing—Testing Next.js apps
• Testing: cypress—End to end testing of Javascript web applications
• Testing: jest—Simple unit testing of plain old JavaScript functions

• Abstract Factory

• Adapter

• Bridge

• Model-View-Controller