COSI JBS: Summer 2010

Note: This program is over. This site is the archived record
Everything there is to know about the three JBS Courses, Summer 2010: COSI 152aj Web Application Programming, COSI 153aj Mobile Application Development and COSI 154aj The JBS Incubator.

The Instructors were Tim Hickey, tjhickey@brandeis.edu and Pito Salas, pitosalas@brandeis.edu and the classroom was Volen 101.

Final Projects

The CS154aj JBS Incubator required students to form in small groups to create both web and mobile app final projects. Here are links to the web projects:

Click here for more info including screen shots and team members.

Links

Much of the content of the course, from the planning stages, the day to day writings and records, and some follow up information is found here.

Classs Related Links

Videos for: Web Class, Mobile Class	Standup Meetings list	Student Led Presentation Topics
Mug Shots	Contact Information	All participants' Linkedin
Profile pages for faculty and students	Confirmed Speakers	Topics Covered - TOC

Homework Related Links

Not-Final-Non-Exam	Homeworks and submissions	Information about grading
Updated: Homework Guidelines	Learning Objectives	Mug Shots
Contact Information	Programming Style for homeworks

Incubator Related Links

Initial project ideas	Links to the 3 Incubator projects	Presentation Files
Incubator Project Planning	Handout for demo day	How the Incubator Will Work
Ideas for a Brandeis Incubator

Tools

Handy Html and Css Tools	How to create a screencast	Learning Ruby Resources
Required books and other bibliography	IRC Chat for our class	Credits
T-shirt design	Phones

Schedule

The day to day schedule of work, which was developed before the course, and then kept up to date each day. There are lots of detailed lecture notes and links as well.

RequiredPrework - Pre-work that all need to do before the first day of class
OptionalPrework - If you want to really hit the ground running

1: Internet Protocols Refresher: Tue, June 1

10:00-11:00: Kickoff (Pito+Tim)
11:00-12:00: Core Internet Architecture (Pito)
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-3:00: Incubator: Intro to Agile; Define and brainstorm projects (Pito)
Homework assignment 1

2: Web Architecture Concepts: Wed, June 2

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00 Web Architecture Foundations (Pito)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00 Incubator: Form project teams; further define products; create Pivotal Tracker projects
4:30-5:30 JBS Ice Cream Social - details coming soon
Homework assignment 2

3: HTML, CSS, Forms: Thu, June 3

10:00-10:05] - Loose ends from yesterday
10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00: HTML, CSS, Forms (Tim)
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-1:30: Teams prioritize top 10 stories, and estimate
1:30-2:30: Discussion: Each team leads a discussion on top 10 stories
2:30-3:00: Discussion: Vertical vs. Horizontal
3:00-3:15: Homework Assignment 3

4: Introduction to Rails: Mon, June 7

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-10:25 Tying up loose ends on CSS (Tim)
10:25-11:55 Intro to Rails and MVC (Pito)
11:55-12:00 Eugene tells us what's interesting about Permait Inc.
1:00-2:00: Speaker: Jered Floyd, CTO of Permabit Inc.
1:00-1:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product. One person from each team makes a blog post with notes
1:30-3:00 Independent work by teams; housecalls
3:00-3:15 Review of homework assignments for tomorrow

5: Databases and OR Mapping: Tue, June 8

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00 Databases, SQL, OR Mapping (Pito)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Holiday. Homework-04 (and 03, 02, 01, 00, now due tomorrow!)

6: Models: Wed, June 9

Loose ends: blog post for each team containing ALL the standup status reports; 4 ! teams iteration meeting/report on Monday
10:00 - 11:40 Models (Pito)
11:40-12:00 Murtaza leads a discussion: Intro on cellphone protocols and networks
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Incubator: 3 Teams Weekly Report (20 minutes each)
3:00-3:15 Review of Homework 05 for tomorrow

7: Views and Controllers: Thu, June 10

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls for Homework 05
10:20-12:00 , Views and Controllers (Pito)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:15 Standup meetings
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 06 due June 14

8: Persistence, Sessions and State: Mon, June 14

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-10:45 - Non-SQL Databases. What are they, when are they interesting -- Gabe
11:00-12:00 Sessions, Cookies, Persistence (Tim)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 08 Due June 15th

9: 3 Tier, Loadbalancing, Deployment and Scale: Tue, 15th

10:00-10:10 - Homework cold calls
10:10-10:30 Nested-forms Nested Forms Demo -- Gabe
10:30-12:00 3 Tier, Loadbalancing, Scale (Pito)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Weekly Product Status Presentations
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 09, due June 16th

10: Programmable Web: Wed, June 16th

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00 REST API Design, Programmable Web (Pito)
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-1:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 10, due June 17th

11: Javascript and Ajax: Thu, June 17th

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-11:20 - Javascript, Ajax, Json, Async (Tim)
11:20-11:50 - Nick Gordon presentation on jQuery
11:50-12:00 - Introduction to speaker: Charu
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:00 Speaker: Marty Roth '76, Architect at Oracle Corporation, 1-2pm
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 11, due June 21st

12: Testing and Quality: Mon, June 21st

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-10:40 Large scale cloud computing (Charu)
10:40-11:55 Testing and Quality (Pito)
11:55-12:00 David introduces glenn mcdonald's background
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:00: Speaker: glenn mcdonald.
2:00-3:00 Weekly Product Status Presentations
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 12, due June 22st
Homework is here

13: User Interface: Tue June 22

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00 - User Interface
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-1:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 13, due June 23st

14: Web App Security: Wed June 23

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00 - Web Attacks and defenses (Tim)
12:00-1:00 - Lunch
1:00-1:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 14, due June 24th

15: Finale (not FINAL, finale): Thu, June 24th

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-10:45 Student Led Discussion (David, Rails vs. Django)
10:45 - 12:00 - Review, Q&A, Loose ends
12:00-1:00 - Lunch
1:00-2:00 - Speaker: Patty Jacobson - Creating Jewishboston.com
2:00-2:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 15, due June 28th

16: Welcome to COSI 152aj - Mobile App Development: Mon June 28

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00 - Mobile is Different (Pito)
11:50-12:00 - Introduction to David Cancel by Nick
12:00-1:00 - Lunch
1:00-2:00 - Speaker: David Cancel
- Serial entrepreneur, currently ceo of Performable
- His blog
2:30-3:30 Product Status Reports (Volen 105)
3:30-3:45 Homework Review for Homework 16, due June 29th

17: Basic Concepts of the Mobile World: Tue June 29th

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00 - Basic Concepts for building mobile apps (pito)
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-1:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
1:30-3:00 - Workshop on Hello World Android (Tim) Setup and Install Emulator; Use the phones
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 17, due June 30th

18: Conceptual Intro to Android: Wed June 30th

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00 - Conceptual Intro to Android (Tim)
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-1:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 18, due July 1]

19: Designing the User Interface (Tim) Thu July 1

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00 - Designing the Android UI - CH3 (Tim)
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 Greg Milette "How I built my first app"
2:30-3:00 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 19, due July 6

20: Location and Sensing Tue July 6

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00 - Location and Sensing (Tim)
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:30 - prepare for demo
2:30-3:30 Incubator Status Presentations, Volen 105
3:30-3:45 Homework Review for Homework 20, due July 7

21: Android UI Internals - Key Concepts Wed July 7

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-10:45 - Student Led Presentation - Volunteer?
10:45-12:00 - Android UI: Activities, Intents, Views, Layout - PIto
12:00-1:00 - Lunch
1:00-2:30 - Speaker: Imran Qidwai, Mobile Technologist and Entrepreneur
- Article in Lokvani
- LinkedIn profile
2:30-3:00 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 21, due July 8

22: Android Speech and Voice Thu July 8

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00 - Greg Milette "The Google Android Android Speech API"
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-1:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
1:30-3:00 ...
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 22, due July 9

23. 2D Graphics Fri July 9

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00 - 2D Graphics in general and details for Mobile apps- Tim
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-1:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 23, due July 12

24. DB Access and Persistence - Mon July 12

9:50-10:00 - Introduction of our speaker by Fanjay
10:00-11:00 Speaker: Ted Morgan of Skyhook
11:00-11:20 - Homework cold calls
11:20-12:00 - DB Access and Persistence on tiny devices - Tim
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-1:30 Standup presentations
1:30-1:45 Homework Review for Homework 24a due July 15 and 24b due July 23rd
1:45-4:00 work on incubator demo presentations

25. Mobile Store/Market - Tue July 13

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-12:00 - What you need to do to get your app into the Market(s) - Tim
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:30 - work on incubator presentations
2:30-3:30 Incubator: Project Reports
3:30-3:45 Homework Review for Homework 25, due July 14

26. Using Web APIs Wed July 14

10:00-10:20 - Gabe: Testing frameworks, Cucumber (Upload new attachment "BDD.pdf")
10:20-10:45 - "How do ad networks work. How to add them to your site" (Ted) Ad Networks
10:45-11:50 - Using Web APIs - details for Mobile apps- Tim
11:50-12:00 - Introduction of our speaker by VOLUNTEER?
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:30 - Speaker: Noah Mendelsohn, World Wide Web Consortium
2:30-3:00 - Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 26, due July 15

27. Market Considerations Thu July 15

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-11:00 - Market Considerations - Pito
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-1:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 27, due July 19

28. The Computer Business Mon July 19

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-10:40 - mobile_compare.pptx -fanjay
10:45-12:00 - The Computer Business - Pito
11:50-12:00 - Introduction of our speaker by Pito
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:00: Speaker: Jeffrey Beir
- Jeffrey founded eRoom Technology (with me) in 1996
- Jeffrey on LinkedIn
- More info
2:00-2:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 28, due July 20

29. Open Source Tue July 20

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-10:45 - Student Led Presentation - GPS and Wifi-Location by Eugene McW.
10:45-12:00 - The Software Business + Open Source Software Development - Pito
12:00-1:00: Lunch
2:30-3:00 Incubator Status Presentations
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 29, due July 21

30. Review of Mobile App Development Wed July 21

10:00-10:20 - Homework cold calls
10:20-10:45 - Student Led Presenation - Safari, Chrome, FireFox
10:45-12:00 - Review of Mobile App Development - Tim
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-1:30 Incubator: Standup meetings for each product
3:00-3:15 Homework Review for Homework 30, due July 22

31. Final Project Demos Mon July 22

10:00-12:00 final Reviews, preparations for demos
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00 Final, star-studded, velvet-rope-guarded, no-holds-barred presentations and demos of the three products
3:00 Adjourn