From: Michael Ernst <mernst@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 6:45 AM
Subject: CSE 403 in winter and spring 2016
To: CSE Ugrad Advisor <ugrad-advisor@cs.washington.
Subject: CSE 403 in winter and spring 2016
The winter and spring offerings of CSE 403 will differ somewhat, and you may wish to take that into account when planning your schedule.
CSE 403, Software Engineering, teaches you to become a better software developer. You get to work in a team on a project of your own choosing, and you will learn more about all aspects of the development life cycle (not just programming).
In winter, you can choose whatever project you like, but it is not supposed to relate to software development: it should target non-programmers. Common choices are a website or mobile app, but you have a lot of freedom so long as you target end users.
In spring, you can choose whatever project you like, but it is supposed to relate to software development. You might build or evaluate an IDE or automated testing or debugging tool; again, you have a lot of freedom so long as you target programmers.
Enjoy CSE 403 in 2016!
-Mike