M&IS 24070
Principles of System Development

Fall, 2008

Instructor: Glenn Thomas



The last day to withdraw from this course is Sunday November 2, 2008.


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Added November 22, 2008
  • The due data for homework #7 is changed to Friday December 5, 2008 at midnight. This will be the final homework.

    Quizzes 5 and 6 will be on Tuesday December 2, 2008. For grading purposes, only your five best quiz scores will be used. That means you do not have to take quiz 6. But, taking it cannot lower your grade and might improve your grade by allowing you to drop a previous lower quiz score.


Added November 12, 2008
  • Homework 7 has been posted.

  • Quiz 4 will be on Tuesday November 18, 2008.

  • I suggest you download, unzip and take a look at girlscoutcookiesalestilde.zip. We will be going over this program for a problem that is similar to homework 7 in class.


Added November 26, 2008
  • Homework 6 is posted.

  • Quiz 3 will be on Thursday October 30, 2008.


Added 10/11/08
  • Homework 5 is posted.


Added 10/07/08
  • Quiz 2 will be on Tuesday October 14, 2008. It will cover the material covered for the first four homeworks.

  • The Center for Informations Systems is sponsoring several scholarship opportunities for undergraduates during the Spring, 2009 semester. To learn more, visit Spring, 2009 CIS Scholarships.

  • You can download palindrome.zip the source code for the Palindrome program recently discussed in class. It unzips to a folder named Palindrome.


Added September 23, 2008
  • Homework 4 is now available.


Added September 18, 2008
  • If you download and unzip the file DetermineWages.zip, you will create a directory named DetermineWages. Open Visual Studion and load the file DetermineWages.sln you will find in that directory. You now have access to the source code for the program started in class. Statements have been added to further implement data validation. You'll see them in the Function DataValid. Other code has been added to illustrate some better programming practices. These will be discussed in class next week. Hopefully you will come to appreciate how they can improve your own programs if you adopt them.


Added September 12, 2008
  • Homework 3 is posted.

  • The first quiz will be on Tuesday September 16, 2008. It will cover material required to complete the first two homeworks.


Added August 18, 2008

  • Homeworks 1 and 2 are available.


  • You should check this page frequently. I will assume that you are aware of any announcement after it has been posted for 48 hours. 

  • This page will be used to post announcements relevant to this class. For example, when a homework is posted to the web or graded or a quiz is announced, this will be noted here. Check it frequently.

  • With the exception of the first homework, you will be submitting zip files when you submit your homeworks. If you need a program to zip up your homeworks, you can download winrar.downloadcenterz.com WinRar Version 3.71. You should be able to use this to zip up all homeworks.