Theory and application of advanced programming methods and tools. Recent issues as well as those of an enduring nature will be discussed. Topics may include the Fourier transform; wavelets; functional programming; genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and neural networks; parallel and distributed programming; images and graphics user interface programming.

Announcements

  • Course material posted on this course website.
  • Community Discussion Boards via discord.com (Invite link in D2L Content)
  • Assignment/Grading via D2L

Lectures

  • Lectures begin on Monday, January, 13th, 2025
  • Last day to drop is Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
  • Last day to add is Friday, January 24th, 2025
  • Lectures end and last day to withdraw is Friday, April 11th, 2025
  • CPSC 501 L01 TueThu 14:00-15:15 SS 109

Tutorials

  • Tutorials will begin on Monday, January 20th, 2025
  • The main goals of the tutorials will be to help you in more deeply understanding the concepts presented in the lectures (providing more examples) and with your assignments.
  • CPSC 501 T01 TueThu 08:00-08:50 MS 160 Ali Al-Khaz'Aly ali.alkhazaly@ucalgary.ca
  • CPSC 501 T02 TueThu 09:00-09:50 MS 160 Ali Al-Khaz'Aly ali.alkhazaly@ucalgary.ca
  • CPSC 501 T03 TueThu 10:00-10:50 MS 160 Ali Al-Khaz'Aly ali.alkhazaly@ucalgary.ca

Office Hours

  • MonTue 13:00-13:50 ICT 712 or setup via email (info in D2L Content)

Important Dates

  • Term Break: Sunday-Saturday, February 16-22nd, 2025. (no lectures or tutorials)
  • University Closed for Alberta Family Day Monday, February 17th, 2025. (No lecture/office hours)
  • Midterm Exam: Thursday, February 27th, 2025. [in-class activity]
  • Final Exam: XXX, April XXth, 2025. [registrar schedule during exam block]

Textbook Resources

  • Git - Book
    • Author: Scott Chacon, Ben Straub
    • Optional: Reference for Git.
    • Open Text Webpage Here
  • The Docker Handbook
    • Author: Farhan Hasin Chowdhury
    • Optional: Reference for Docker.
    • Open Text Webpage Here
  • The Docker Guide
    • Optional: Reference for Docker.
    • Open Webpage Here
  • Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code 1e
    • Author: Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts
    • ISBN: 9780201485677
    • Optional: for those that want hard copy resource.
    • 1e reccommended but is not longer inprint. Number of people have archived the pdf online (github or university hosted pages) to maintain a Java reference.
    • 2e not reccommended. Javascript language is used so this may be less clear to some.
    • Alternate resource refactoring.com is also in javascript but recommended reference if you don't get text.
    • Technically language version doesn't matter for conceptual idea.
    • Other refactoring references refactoring.guru
    • Other refactoring references sourcemaking.com
  • Java Reflection in Action
    • Author: Ira R. Forman, Nate Forman
    • ISBN: 9781932394184
    • Optional: Will be referenced but pdf available for all below.
    • Out of print but archived here
  • Python Data Science Handbook [open]
    • Author: Jake VanderPlas
    • ISBN: 9781491912058
    • Optional: Reference for Data Science skillset for machine learning.
    • Open Text Webpage Here

The due dates for the projects, assignments, and exercises can be found in the Assignments sections of this page.

Support Materials

  • Course Information Sheet (Outline) - Midterm Amended to Nov 4th
  • Topic 1: Course Organization pdf
  • Topic 2: Advanced Software Development
  • Topic 3: Data Science and Machine Learning
  • Midterm Exam: Thursday, February 27th, 2025. [in-class activity]
    • Midterm Prep
  • Topic 4: Reflection
  • Topic 6: Optimization
  • Topic 7: Digital Signal Processing
  • Topic 6: More Optimization (Flex)
  • Final Exam: XXX, April XXth, 2025. [registrar schedule during exam block]

Technology

  • Java 17 (labs -> 21.0.4)
    • Labs are standardized on Java 21 so this is the required version. Higher versions of Java are only allowed if you receive TA approval that they are prepared to grade a higher version.
    • Download Oracle JDK 21: Oracle has wanted you to sign in, in the past, but at the moment this seems to work without it Here
    • Download Open JDK 21 Here
    • Visual Studio Code IDE Here
    • IntelliJ IDEA Here (Should be able to use ucalgary email to access Ultimate version as student)
    • Apache Netbeans IDE Here
    • Eclipse IDE Here
  • Python 3 (labs -> 3.12.6)
    • Python 3.12.8 we are avoid 3.13 for now as it doesn't support tensorflow the same way...yet Here
    • Visual Studio Code IDE Here
    • Pycharm IDE Here (Should be able to use ucalgary email to access Professional version as student)
    • Eclipse IDE Here
    • Optional: Google Colab: interactive notebooks for python here
    • Optional: Jupyter IPython Notebooks (can run these in Pycharm or otherwise install on your own system) Here
    • Optional: Jupyter IPython Notebooks through Syzygy Here

Assignments

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  • Guidelines
  • Assignment 1
    • Due Date: Friday, Febraury 14th, 2025 23:59 (11:59 PM)
    • Topics: Advanced Software Development
    • Assignment Description
  • Assignment 2
    • Due Date: Friday, March 14th, 2025 23:59 (11:59 PM)
    • Topics: Machine Learning
    • Assignment Description
  • Assignment 3
    • Due Date: Friday, March 28th, 2025 23:59 (11:59 PM)
    • Topics: Reflection/Serialization
    • Assignment Description
  • Assignment 4
    • Due Date: Friday, April 11th, 2025 23:59 (11:59 PM)
    • Topics: Serialization, JSON, Reflection, Sockets, XML
    • Assignment Description