FA22 Syllabus

Jessica Sylvester, Shungo Najima

Course Staff

Name	Role	Office Hours	Location
Jessica Sylvester	Instructor	Friday 5-6 pm	Hollister 312
Shungo Najima	Instructor	Wednesday 4-5 pm	Upson 216
Gonzalo Gonzalez	TA	Monday 6:15-7:15 pm	Hollister 362
Sasha Loayza	TA	Monday 6:15-7:15 pm	Hollister 362
Noah Solomon	TA	Tuesday 5-6 pm	Hollister 372
Bella Hoie	TA	Tuesday 5-6 pm	Hollister 372
Marya Kim	TA	Wednesday 4-5 pm	Upson 216
Kate Liang	TA	Thursday 5-6 pm	Hollister 312
Joyce Wu	TA	Friday 5-6 pm	Hollister 312
Kidus Zegeye	TA	Saturday 3-4 pm	Hollister 312
Mateo Weiner	TA	Saturday 3-4 pm	Hollister 312

Schedule

This schedule is tentative and subject to changes to Cornell's Fall 2022 academic calendar.

Lectures are every Monday and Wednesday from 7:30 pm to 8:20 pm in Olin Hall 255 and each week's lectures will be split into two parts: a concept-based overview of the week's topic, followed by a live implementation demo of the same topic.

Additionally, there will be a project assignment every week, which will typically be due on the following Wednesday. You can find the lecture recordings on our YouTube channel, for you to rewatch as you wish.

Lecture Dates	Topic	Project	Project Due Date
2/21, 2/23	Routes	Reddit	3/5
2/28	February Break :)	N/A	N/A
3/2	(Optional) Git	N/A	N/A
3/7, 3/9	Databases	Venmo (Basic)	3/16
3/14, 3/16	Relational Databases	Venmo (Full)	3/23
3/21, 3/23	Abstractions	CMS	3/30
3/28, 3/30	Containerization	Dockerize CMS	4/6
4/4, 4/6	Spring Break!!	N/A	N/A
4/11, 4/13	Deployment	Deploy CMS	4/20
4/18, 4/20	Hack Challenge Kickoff + Authentication	Hack Challenge Submission	TBD
4/25, 4/27	Images	Hack Challenge Submission	TBD
5/2, 5/4	TBD	Hack Challenge Submission	TBD
5/9	Hack Challenge Finale	N/A	N/A

Enrollment

You can enroll yourself into the course like any other on Student Center upon passing the pre-test and submitting the application (see Apply to Take the Course). This is a 2-credit S/U course, however, we permit students to enroll for 1-credit for the purpose of avoiding a credit overload petition. All students are expected to do the same work, regardless of the number of enrolled credits.

We highly encourage you to reference demos, attend office hours, and ask questions on Ed discussion. Along with submitting assignment source code, you will be required to submit a text file (README.txt) where you can freely comment on the week’s lecture, assignment, or anything else. You will also fill out a short questionnaire which helps us quantify feedback for improving the course.

Grading

As mentioned earlier, this is a 2 credit S/U course and grading will be calculated as shown in the table below.

Submission Deadline: Wednesday 11:59 pm Late Deadline: Saturday 11:59 pm Late Penalty: -1 point penalty per day. We will not accept homework after the late deadline. Safety Net: 6 total slip days for the semester, up to 3 can be used per assignment.

Item	Weight
PA1 - Reddit	10
PA2 - Venmo (Basic)	10
PA3 - Venmo (Full)	10
PA4 - CMS	10
PA5 - Dockerize CMS	10
PA6 - Deploy CMS	10
Final Project	30
Weekly Surveys	5
Attendance	5
Total	100
Passing Score	70

Hack Challenge

All AppDev courses finish with bringing members from iOS, backend, and design together to put what you’ve learned to the test and build your very own application. All students are welcome to submit app ideas and teams up to four will be formed to bring the idea to life. Leading up to the Hack Challenge, the backend course will focus on deployment so that your mobile apps can connect to a live backend running on Google Cloud servers. It goes without saying that the majority of students find the Hack Challenge the most rewarding and fun part of the course!

Academic Integrity

As with any other course at Cornell, the code of academic integrity will be enforced in this class. While we encourage you to collaborate with other students, all code that you submit must be written by you (and although a great method for learning, pair programming does not abide by our standards of students submitting their own work). We also encourage using the internet to learn more about backend development, but again, any code you submit must be written by you.