Lecture #13 - Midterm Grading and Project #5

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Office Hours: Instructor & TAs

Content:

1. The Syllabus describes topics to be covered, reading material for you to digest before coming to class, and due dates for the assigned projects.
2. Hand back graded midterms and discuss the results.
   Instructor's solutions for Midterm Exam 1
   Instructor's solutions for Midterm Exam 2
   Instructor's solutions for Midterm Exam 3
   Instructor's solutions for Midterm Exam 4
   
3. Midterm Makeup Exam - due December 14th, 2007
   This is a take home make up examination. You are required to do two things:
   
   1. Review your exam solution, and, for each question, describe what was wrong with your answer, if anything. Please do not feedback my solutions.
   2. Complete the Makeup Examination, linked above.
   If you complete these two tasks nearly flawlessly, your midterm grade will be raised to an 85, but no higher. You may ask any question you wish about the examination. The TA and I will give clear answers about how to tackle the problem in question.
4. Project #5
   
5. Architecture Concept Survival Guide
   
6. Riddhiman Ghosh - Best Final Reports
   
7. Saket Satta - Best Final Reports
   
8. Software Architecture Taxonomy
   
9. Project Center Use Cases
   
10. What a Software Architect does
    
11. More "chalk talk" for Project #5
12. Questions about Project #5 ?
13. Microsoft comparison between Remoting and Web Services
    
14. Performance of Dynamic Invocations
    
15. Message-Passing Communication Analysis (student project)
    
16. Application Domain details
    
17. Software Design
    
18. Microsoft Research - Futures Concurrency
    
19. Lecture #10 folder contains a page of links to presentations and code discussed in this class. The Lecture folders will occasionally hold physical files of interest as well. Usually, however, all the materials of interest to the class are in the presentations and code folders. The contents of these folders will grow as you progress through the course.