Students will learn a variety of software engineering techniques and design patterns to assist in the rapid development and prototyping of mobile software applications, leveraging frameworks and APIs provided by the Flutter toolkit. Application lifecycles, data management and persistence mechanisms, and user interface design, among other topics, will be covered.
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
develop applications targeting multiple platforms using Flutter, making use of a substantial portion of its libraries and APIs
discuss the decisions and tradeoffs inherent in the design and architecture of an application development framework such as Flutter
identify and explain common design patterns for separating and managing user interface elements, interactivity, dynamic data, persistence, and concurrency, among other software application concerns
take a mobile development project from concept/mockup to final implementation
You must have taken the following classes (or equivalents):
Undergraduate students: CS 331 and CS 351
Graduate students: CS 401 and CS 402
Grades in the class are broken down as follows:
The grade scale is {A > 90%; B > 80%; C > 70%; D > 60%; E < 60%}.
Each assignment will ask you to implement a working software application based on a high-level specification and set of functional requirements. Typically, the assignment description will also specify what pre-existing components (e.g., widgets, local/remote APIs) you should / should not use.
Each student starts the semester with a 7-day late pool, which can be distributed however they please (one day at a time) across assignments. E.g., a student may choose to submit the first assignment 1 day late and the second assignment 2 days late, at which point they still have 4 late days to apply to later assignment(s). Once a student is out of late days, late assignments will not be accepted for credit. Late days may not be used after the last day of classes.
When submitting an assignment, please let the TA know if you are using late days.
Quizzes consisting mostly of objective questions (multiple choice, T/F, etc.) will be periodically administered via Blackboard. The function of these quizzes is to help you assess your understanding of conceptual material covered in lecture and assigned readings. You may take each quiz an unlimited number of times before its associated due date --- the highest score earned on each quiz will be counted.
Reasonable accommodations will be made for students with documented disabilities. In order to receive accommodations, students must obtain a letter of accommodation from the Center for Disability Resources and make an appointment to speak with me as soon as possible. The Center for Disability Resources is located in the Life Sciences Building, room 218, 312-567-5744 or disabilities@iit.edu.
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