Sept. 12:

Introduction to software development

Game software development to learn about
  software development and computer science in general

Requirements
Design
Implementation
Testing

Design activities:
  software design
  game design
  algorithm design

Start with requirements for Specker Derivative Game
Play the game.

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Sept. 16:

DemeterF/DemFGen
  Class dictionaries
  DGP
Risk analysis for a derivative
Assigning roles: Maintaining requirements: Nathaniel.
Communicate.
CSP version.

Architecture of a player

Sept. 19:
Project 2
Requirement evolution: secret derivatives
TUCombiner - MapReduce


Sept. 23:
Project roles
Project 2 revisited
code organization
software architecture: 
implicit invocation
blackboard architecture

DemeterF
TUCombiner implementation
study the DemeterF library


September 26
Project: preparing for the first robot competition

Goal: 
you produce the winning robot for SDG
with classic and secret derivatives for the MAX-CSP 
problem.
Work in addition to what is in the subprojects

Freezing the raw material language for CSP: the language
the robots use to communicate.
Focus on two variables per constraint.

Run game with new syntax.

College has 120+ quadruple core machines. 
Change Traversal to ParTraversal to put them to work.

We will run the competition on a quad core.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000655.html
In DemeterF: Traversal -> ParTraversal

DemeterF: important classes: ID, Bc, Control,
TUCombiner, Traversal, ParTraversal
BST examples

Creating a library out of the generated code.

September 30
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Play game with relations

Requirements analysis
introducing randomized algorithms

Continue with DemeterF
The aspect model behind DemeterF

Project planning

Further standardization of exchange language
Have done raw material
need: derivative, finished product.

Oct. 3
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Finish planning
Subproject 4
Review requirements analysis
DemeterF

Oct. 7
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course coverage
visitor pattern
multimethods
structure-shyness
programming technologies for product families
Requirements 
DemeterF

Oct. 10
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Shannon decomposition lab
Google interview question
connection to the P=NP problem

Oct. 14
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Derived Shannon Decomposition program
Relation class
Outsourced software interface

Oct. 17
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Derived the CSP formula analysis for computing 
the weighted fractions of relations.
hw review.

October 21
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Homework review

Agents:
Creation: approximate min max
Buying: approximate min max
Delivery: approximate min max, create complete, symmetric structure
Finishing: approximate max, MAX CSP approximation based on:
E(Z(F,b)) = b*E(Z(F[x=1],b)) + (1-b)*E(Z(F[x=0],b))

October 29
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Class dictionary review
self-describing cds

October 31
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midterm review

software development technology:
DemeterF
  review DemeterF intro document
Application domain: analyzing the world the SDG robots live in.
  domain analysis

November 18
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code review: Administrator

method overloading versus multi-method dispatch

new roles

pragmatic programmer tips

Put Abstractions in Code, Details in Metadata

robot eval

November 21
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Bryan Chadwick
  iteration
  speed-up
    static traversals
    ParTraversal
  Discussion of DemeterF

code reviews: Dr. Robotnik

November 25
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A new algorithm for SDG: Linear Programming

Code reviews based on requirements document:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/courses/csu670/f08/requirements/sdg-f08.pdf

December 2
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Better evaluation: Swiss Tournament
New requirements: motivated by chess

Review Linear Programming
/home/lieber/.www/courses/csg113/f08/lectures/dec3

Info on project document
Agile page 36

December 5:
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Our game: dealing with complexity
robot IQ
reviews changed requirements: secret game
software process models
course charter discussion
Game: trading with complexity

December 9:
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Importance of requirements
slides for review
course charter