SP24 Syllabus
Tony Matchev, Aayush Agnihotri
Course Staff
| Name | Role | Office Hours | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
Tony Matchev | Instructor | Friday 4-5pm | Rhodes 576 |
Aayush Agnihotri | Instructor | Friday 4-5pm | Rhodes 576 |
Isabella Hoie | TA | Friday 1:30-2:30pm | Goldwin Smith 348 |
Mateo Weiner | TA | Wednesday 1-2pm | |
Maxwell Pang | TA | Tuesday 5-6pm | Goldwin Smith 236 |
Kidus Zegeye | TA | Friday 1-2pm | |
Cindy Liang | TA | Monday 5:30-6:30pm | Snee Hall 1150 |
Thomas Vignos | TA | Wednesday 1-2pm | |
Daniel Weiner | TA | Tuesday 5-6pm | Goldwin Smith 236 |
Sophie Strausberg | TA | Friday 1:30-2:30pm | Goldwin Smith 348 |
Daisy Chang | TA | Monday 5:30-6:30pm | Snee Hall 1150 |
Schedule
This schedule is tentative and subject to changes to Cornell's Spring 2024 academic calendar.
Lectures are every Monday and Wednesday from 7:30 PM to 8:20 PM in Olin 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 Monday. You can find the lecture recordings on our YouTube channel, for you to rewatch as you wish.
Lecture Dates | Topic | Project | Project Due Date |
3/13, 3/18 | Routes | 3/25 | |
3/20 | (Optional) Git | N/A | N/A |
3/25, 3/27 | Databases | Venmo (Basic) | 4/10 |
4/8, 4/10 | Relational Databases | Venmo (Full) | 4/15 |
4/15, 4/17 | Abstractions | CMS | 4/24 |
4/22, 4/24 | Containerization | Dockerize CMS | 4/29 |
4/22 | Hack Challenge Kickoff | Hack Challenge | 5/3 |
4/29, 5/1 | Deployment | Deploy CMS | 5/6 |
5/6 | Images | N/A | N/A |
TBD | 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.
Weekly Assignments
Programming assignments and weekly feedback forms are due on Mondays at 11:59 pm and submitted on CMS. Students will have 6 total slip days throughout the semester to submit assignments without a grading penalty. After all slip days have been used, there will be a -10% penalty per day. No late submissions will be accepted after the Saturday following the normal submission deadline.
Because of the slip day policy, no extensions will be granted.
Each assignment will have three optional challenges to take your understanding further.
Tier I challenges are designed to be low difficulty, simple extensions of the application (estimated time: <1 hour).
Tier II challenges are medium difficulty extensions that require more forethought for a successful implementation, but are by no means out of reach (estimated time: <2 hours).
Tier III challenges are high difficulty extensions which will often require outside research and will teach you things that we do not have time to cover in this course.
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: Monday 11:59 pm Late Deadline: Thursday 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.
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