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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 Security Architect/Principal Architect at eBay. He looks over various security architecture projects for all of eBay. Before eBay, he was the Security Architect at various business units (Real Time Communication group, Yahoo Community, Yahoo Communications) at Yahoo from 2005 to 2011. Prior to Yahoo, he held various senior positions at IBM, Oracle and different Silicon Valley startup companies. Richard is an inventor and has filed over sixteen invention disclosures (patents). 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:

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 / lab assignment.

Class schedule is under: http://info.sjsu.edu/home/schedules.html

Add permission code

Old procedure below. Come to class and check out what is the new add procedure.

Students asking for permission codes should complete the request form available on the department wiki at <http://wiki.cmpe.sjsu.edu/lib/exe/fetch.php/documents:permission_number_request_form.pdf>.

The instructor collects thee forms on the first day of classes and passes them all to Lee Chang (who will serve as a clearinghouse). Print your own or More forms will be available in the department office.

No Open university student add in general.

Honesty Pledge can be downloaded here.

Class time:

Every Wednesday at 6:30pm

Class room:

ENG 343

Course Information

Objectives

Development of software systems from the perspective of project management within the dynamic and complex nature of software technologies and environments; development lifecycle, communications, team dynamics, planning, estimation, scheduling, risk analysis, metrics tracking, problem management, and configuration management. Prerequisite: Classified graduate standing or graduate advisor 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) 30%, Homework 20%, Midterm 15%, Final Exam 15%, Team Presentation 10% and Lecture/Lab assignments 10%.

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

Policy Info

Academic Dishonesty

This is just a reminder that ALL cases of academic dishonesty (plagiarism, cheating, etc) should be reported to the chair.

In order be fair to the students we have to maintain a uniform process for handling such cases - there really is no faculty discretion once a case of plagiarism or cheating has been discovered - ALL cases will be reported.

The most relevant Senate policy w.r.t this is S07-2. The policy defines academic dishonesty as follows (please note the very low tolerance definition of plagiarism):

1.1 CHEATING
San José State University defines cheating as the act of obtaining or attempting to obtain credit for academic work through the use of any dishonest, deceptive, or fraudulent means. Cheating includes:

1.1.1. Copying, in part or in whole, from another’s test or other evaluation instrument including homework assignments, worksheets, lab reports, essays, summaries, quizzes, etc.;

1.1.2. Submitting work previously graded in another course without prior approval by the course instructor or by departmental policy;

1.1.3. Submitting work simultaneously presented in two courses without prior approval by both course instructors or by the department policies of both departments;

1.1.4. Using or consulting sources, tools or materials prohibited by the instructor prior to, or during an examination;

1.1.5. Altering or interfering with the grading process;

1.1.6. Sitting for an examination by a surrogate, or as a surrogate;

1.1.7. Any other act committed by a student in the course of their academic work that defrauds or misrepresents, including aiding others in any of the actions defined above.

1.2 PLAGIARISM
San José State University defines plagiarism as the act of representing the work of another as one's own without giving appropriate credit, regardless of how that work was obtained, and submitting it to fulfill academic requirements.

Plagiarism includes:

1.2.1 Knowingly or unknowingly incorporating the ideas, words, sentences, paragraphs, or parts of, or the specific substance of another's work, without giving appropriate credit, and representing the product as one's own work;

1.2.2 Representing another’s artistic/scholarly works such as musical compositions, computer programs, photographs, paintings, drawing, sculptures, or similar works as one's own.

Pledge

Class Material

Lecture Notes

Required Textbooks:

Core Reference:

Schedule

Term Project

Please refer to the project document.

Grade

Email sinn@openloop.com to check your grade if necessary.

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.

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