Monday, Wednesday, Friday - 12:30 - 1:35
| Week | Date | Comments |
| 1 | March 28th | |
| 2 | April 4th | |
| 3 | April 11th | |
| 4 | April 18th | |
| 5 | April 25th | Last week of classes. Select final teams. |
| 6 | May 2nd | |
| 7 | May 9th | |
| 8 | May 16th | |
| 9 | May 23rd | |
| 10 | May 30th | Demonstrations on June 1st. |
Topics
Reading
Assignment
Create a webpage and send me a link to it before Friday. Add the following links to the webpage:
The webpage should be more than just links. Have at least a sentence describing your thoughts on the material that is linked.
Dr Mark Moran, from CCREL will be talking about using robots for remote sensing
Complete the first Assignment for demonstration during class.
We will go over the use of
an oscilloscope
measure length of pulse width used to control the servo motors.
synch on channel 1 and 2
voltmeter
AC vs. DC
resistance
current
Reading
Reading
Friday
Reading
Reading
(taken from
An
Introduction to Extreme Programming)
Here's how a typical Extreme Programming scenario might look from the
programmer's point of view. This is a very generic procedure outlined here,
but it will give you some idea of the work flow if you're a developer in an XP
environment.
| Very few people get to work on low level C algorithms that just move bytes around any more. Most of us spend all our time these days calling APIs, not moving bytes. Someone who is a fantastic C++ coder with no API experience only knows about 10% of what you use every day writing code that runs on an API. -- Joel on Software - Lord Palmerston on Programming |
Reading
Reading
Selecting final projects and teams
Assignment