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Instructor

Richard Sinn
Email: richardsinn@yahoo.com
Office Hours: After class, by appointment or email only

Richard is currently a Senior Software Development Manager at Adobe. He is responsible for a suite of mobile and desktop software. Before Adobe, he was a Principal MTS/Director at eBay looking over various security projects. Prior to that, he served as a Security Architect/Manager at various Yahoo business units (Real Time Communication group, Yahoo Community, Yahoo Communications) from 2005 to 2011. He has also held various senior positions at IBM, Oracle and different Silicon Valley startup companies. Richard is an inventor and has filed over 20 patents. He has published a college textbook (Software Security Technologies). He is also a frequent writer for various magazines and journals, and a frequent speaker at regional and national technology conferences. As a scholar and supporter for academia, he has been teaching in the Computer Engineering and Computer Science departments at San Jose State University since 1998. He also served as Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota.

Announcements

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Prereq:

CMPE 220 or CMPE 202 or Instructor consent. Students who do not provide documentation of having satisfied the class prerequisite and co-requisite requirements (if any) by the second class meeting will be dropped from the class.

New Prereq check procedure

We will adopt a new procedure (akin to that used by some of the other engineering departments):
At the beginning of the term, have all the students in the class provide a copy of their transcripts, with the prerequisite class grade highlighted. The instructor will then check off against the roster, and drop any and all students who do not provide such proof of having completed the prerequisite with a satisfactory grade.
For classes with co-requisite requirements (such as CMPE 110), the student will provide the transcript (proving that the class has already been passed) or a printout from MySJSU (proving that the student is currently enrolled). Add the following to the class greensheet: ”Students who do not provide documentation of having satisfied the class prerequisite and co-requisite requirements (if any) by the second class meeting will be dropped from the class.

General:

Bring a computer to class. You will need that for lecture assignment.

Add permission code

Please check back.

Honesty Pledge can be downloaded here.

Class time:

Every Saturday at 9:15am

Class room:

ENG 325

Other Info:

Section 2, Code 50652, Units 3, Mode: In Person

Course Information

Course Catalog Description

Study of wireless-based software systems in design and engineering, underlying networks, infrastructures and frameworks, wireless security, mobile user security & privacy (i.e. biometric security), emergent mobile programming platforms and technologies (such as RFID/Barcode/NFC), mobile commerce and service application systems. Prerequisite: CMPE 220 or CMPE 202 or instructor consent.

Grading

Apart from big term project(s) and presentation, there are homework assignments, a mid-term exam and a final exam. Some exams might be take-home. The weightings for grading are: Term Project(s) 40%, Homework 20%, Midterm 10%, Final Exam 10%, and Team Presentation / Lecture assignments 20%. Schedule and course materials subject to change with fair notice. Success in this course is based on the expectation that students will spend, for each unit of credit, a minimum of forty-five hours over the length of the course (normally 3 hours per unit per week with 1 of the hours used for lecture) for instruction or preparation/studying or course related activities including but not limited to internships, labs, clinical practica. Other course structures will have equivalent workload expectations as described in the syllabus.

No Late Assignment Submission. Put everything in an envelop when submit any material.

University Policies

Academic integrity

Students should know that the University’s Academic Integrity Policy is available at http://sa.sjsu.edu/judicial_affairs/faculty_and_staff/academic_integrity/index.html. Your own commitment to learning, as evidenced by your enrollment at San Jose State University and the University’s integrity policy, require you to be honest in all your academic course work. Faculty members are required to report all infractions to the office of Student Conduct and Ethical Development. The Student Conduct and Ethical Development website is available at http://www.sa.sjsu.edu/judicial_affairs/index.html.  
Instances of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Cheating on exams or plagiarism (presenting the work of another as your own, or the use of another person’s ideas without giving proper credit) will result in a failing grade and sanctions by the University. For this class, all assignments are to be completed by the individual student unless otherwise specified. If you would like to include in your assignment any material you have submitted, or plan to submit for another class, please note that SJSU’s Academic Policy F06-1 requires approval of instructors.

Campus Policy in Compliance with the American Disabilities Act

If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, or if you need to make special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please make an appointment with me as soon as possible, or see me during office hours. Presidential Directive 97-03 requires that students with disabilities requesting accommodations must register with the Disability Resource Center (DRC) at http://www.drc.sjsu.edu/  to establish a record of their disability.

Dropping and Adding

Students are responsible for understanding the policies and procedures about add/drop, grade forgiveness, etc.  Refer to the current semester’s Catalog Policies section at http://info.sjsu.edu/static/catalog/policies.html.   Add/drop deadlines can be found on the current academic calendarweb page located at http://www.sjsu.edu/academic_programs/calendars/academic_calendar/.  The Late Drop Policy is available at http://www.sjsu.edu/aars/policies/latedrops/policy/.  Students should be aware of the current deadlines and penalties for dropping classes.

Information about the latest changes and news is available at the Advising Hub at http://www.sjsu.edu/advising/.

Class Material

Lecture Notes

Textbook:

Lecture Notes in class.

Non-Textbook: Reading material will be online on this web site before every lecture.

Schedule

Term Project

Title

Mobile Application: Compute My Grade

Admin

Form a group of 3 or 4 people to complete this mini project.

Description

Based on the knowledge you gain from lab exercieses in class, this project gives you more hands-on development opportunity in a team environment. Minimum requirements for the project is as follows:

• The coding of the project should be based on the sample project compute2a (as in the lab exercise)
• The main page of the app needs to allow the entering of points for the the following items:
  • Homeworks
  • Labs
  • Project
  • Presentation
  • Midterm
  • Final
• The grade setting page needs to allow configuration of the maximum points for each items. E.g.
  • Homeworks - 500
  • Labs - 500
  • Project - 200
  • Presentation - 100
  • Midterm - 100
  • Final - 100
• The grade setting page needs to also allow configuration of each items' scaling factors. E.g.
  • Homeworks - 10%
  • Labs - 40%
  • Project - 20%
  • Presentation - 10%
  • Midterm - 10%
  • Final - 10%
  • (The ratio must be added to 100%)
• The grade settings page needs to allow configuration of grade from A to F. E.g.
  • 90% to 100% is A
  • 80% to 89% is B
  • 70% to 79% is C
  • 60% to 69% is D
  • Below 59% is F
• A checking mechanism must be in place to ensure all the ranges of the grade are not overlap and a percent number in the range of 0 to 100 is assigned one and only one grade.
• The main page of the app needs to display the following:
  • A sample student info includes last name, first name, email, phone number and ID. The information must be served remotely from one of the member's web site.
  • A sample course description. You can use the 235 greensheet as an example. The course descripiton must be served remotely from one of the member's web site (that is different than where the student info is served).
  • The area allowing points to be entered for each item mentioned above
  • The computed final grade of the student

Extra Credits

Extra features can be implemented in the project for extra credits. Here are some of the ideas:

• Fancy sliders for configurations
• Login / authentication process
• Support for multiple classes
• Backend programming support for save and restore
• Fancy overall UI
• (Each group can come up with its own ideas of extra credit).

Grade

Check grade at my.sjsu. Grade will be not be given via email.

General Policy

The university and departmental policies and deadlines for course drop will be applied. Makeup exams cannot be offered, except under exceptional conditions, such as documented serious illness/accident, etc., and only at the professor's discretion.

Each student is responsible for his/her individual assignment, and must not copy anyone else's work. Students who borrow solutions from others will find themselves unable to pass the course. The minimum penalty for every student involved in the duplication of individual assignments or exams will be receiving a zero score on the submitted work.

For group project, all the work has to be done by your OWN group. Do not try to download "free code" from the Internet and hand in as a project. WE WILL FIND OUT. Do not share your work with others. So DO YOUR OWN WORK and EARN your grade.x

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