First Lecture

Turn out for the first lecture was low - about 6 students missing who are on the class list.

We covered unit admin stuff (topics to be covered, assessment, booklist) and covered the introductory lecture on patterns (see the link below). The unit admin stuff took longer than anticipated so the exercise on using a pattern catalogue will wait until next week.

All the students have UML experience and are comfortable in programming in either Java or C++. Also all are from CSSE split roughly evenly between Computing, Computer Science and Software Engineering.

We talked about the assessment: everyone seemed to prefer some choice in the assessment eg do 5 out of 6 things rather than do 5 out of 5 things. Little enthusiasm for working in pairs but no one objected to the possibility.

Over the next week I've asked everyone to investigate some of the unit web page links on patterns.