Welcome

The LMUCS Class of 2016 will be sharing their projects with you today

An annual tradition
since 1983

Rachel

Cameron

Juan

Joaquín

Nicole

Matt

Jeff

Misa

Maurice

Adrian

Anthony

Jordan

...

Albert

Alex

Akrs

Mattie

Gastón

Joseph

Danny

But first...I'm here to tell you a little bit about the class.

I'll be fast

Oh hi, I'm @rtoal

Values

Industry Preparation
Academic and Professional Growth
Open Source
Helping Each Other
Fun

Focus

Version Control (GitHub)
Agile (Rally/Pivotal)
Teamwork and Chatter (Slack)
Architecture and Clean Code

Testing
Security
Documentation
Presentation

History

1983 Chess

1984 Backgammon

1985 Monopoly

1986 Othello

1987 Monopoly

1988 Text Editor

1989 Monopoly

1990 Monopoly

1991 Risk

1992 Backgammon

1993 Scramble

1994 Abalone

1995 Casino Games

1996 Lion's Strike

1997 Acquire

1998 Risk

1999 Keck Wars

2000 NOVA | WAPi

2001 RAPID | Quest for the Last Turing Machine

2002 Galaxy Sleuth | Space Chicken

2003 Island Adventure | Reality High

2004 LMU Sleuth | Supermarket Mystery

2005 Carcassone

2006 JOGL da Ball

2007 B.L.Y.T.S.S.

2008 iDeccka

2009 Serengeti

2010 Manic Monkey Madness

2011 K'tah

2012 Wutup

2013 Chuzr

2014 CherAmi | Kalventure

The Project

Build a fully-functional, interactive, layered, distributed, secure, database-backed software system using agile best practices as part of a small, cohesive team.

Lectures (me)

Git
Networks & Internets
HTTP and REST
Databases (lots of NoSQL)
Hadoop

But usually, we had guests

Because the L.A. Tech Scene

September Guests

	Alex Schneider • Security Innovation Threat modeling
	Aghyan Alzuabi • Symantec Agile, scrum, and product/project management
	Jerry Nguyen • CrowdStrike Security
	Mark Chavira • Google Observe projects and give feedback

October Guests

		Marcelo Tallis and Benson Hon • Criteo Machine learning presentation; long discussions with students
		Laura Massa • LMU Observe class; advise instructor on learning outcomes and assessment
		Myron Flickner • IBM Research Neuromorphic computing
		Jerry Nguyen • CrowdStrike Review students' threat models and give feedback
		Marc Hamilton • NVIDIA Nvidia hardware, software, company culture, and the Silicon Valley scene

November Guests

		Manish Goyal and Dave Pedowitz • Friendbuy An Ask-Me-Anything about entrepreneurship, L.A. Startups, B2B, B2C, software architecture and tech
		Brian Handy • Disney / USC Game Industry presentation; feedback on projects
		Andy Won • Amazon Brief review of projects

December Guests

	Maggie Shih • Criteo Big Data, Semantic Advertising, Tech Startups, and Acquisitions
	Kin Lane • API Evangelist Business, Politics, Economics, and Technology of APIs; feedback on students' APIs
	Ed Bramanti • Philosophie JavaScript, Node, Go, and how to get a job
	John Kochian • UCLA Coaching student presentation dry runs

Sometimes
it was just a work day

Always beginning with a standup

Working off the backlog

Writing everything in the wiki

Junior-Senior Hack Day

Reading & Watching

A partial list

Uncle Bob’s Clean Code (Book and Videos)
What is Scrum?
Spotify’s Engineering Culture
Code as Design essays by Jack Reeves
Building a Feature No One Asked For
What are CSRF Tokens and how do They Work?
Sarah Mei’s Why You Should Never Use MongoDB
OOP is an Expensive Disaster which Must End

Writing

READMEs
Wiki
- Project Descriptions, Goals, ...
- Brainstorming, Designs, Proposals
- Meeting Notes
- Threat Models (more on this later)
Agile Board
- Epics and User Stories

That's all I've got

Because today is about the students

Let’s hear from them now

Nicole Anguiano • Cameron Billingham • Juan Carrillo

Jeff Fennell • Matt Flickner • Joaquín Loustau • Rachel Rivera

Grapevine is...

...An application that automatically populates a user's calendar with events from Twitter and Facebook. Events are extracted by an intelligent agent that listens to feeds that the user follows.