Class Schedule

This is a class schedule indicating what we aim to do each week and the recommended lectures to watch each week. This is broken down by weeks and aims to provide you a general outline of the progress you should make throughout this course.

NOTE: Lecture Time is subject to change with the needs of the course, industry partners, instructor, TA, and students. You should always bring a laptop and be ready to work on your project and with your team.

#	Date	Assignments	Lecture Focus	Guest Lecture
1	Wednesday, January 8 2025	-	First day of class, Introductions & Course Overview	Neel Gokhale: Cohere Product Overview, Demos, and Setup
-	Monday, January 13 2025	❗A1 Due	-	-
2	Wednesday, January 15 2025	-	Technical Decision Making & Strategy	Nayeem Zen: Co-founder & CTO @ Pluto
-	Monday, January 20 2025	❗A2 Due	-	-
3	Wednesday, January 22 2025	-	Scope, Sequencing, and Project Management	TBD
4	Wednesday, January 29 2025	-	Testing & CI	-
-	Monday, February 3 2025	❗A3 Due	-	-
5	Wednesday, February 5 2025	❗A6 Demo (1/4)	AI Applications	TBD
6	Wednesday, February 12 2025	-	AI Core Infrastructure	Speakers from Cohere: TBA
-	Sunday, February 15 2025	❗A4 Due	-	-
7	Wednesday, February 19 2025	-	Reading Week	-
8	Wednesday, February 26 2025	-	Work in Class, Instructor Away	TBD on TA Tutorial
-	Monday, March 3 2025	❗A5 Due	-	-
9	Wednesday, March 5 2025	❗A6 Demo (2/4)	Work in Class, Data Platforms & Analytics Landscape	-
10	Wednesday, March 12 2025	-	Work in Class	-
11	Wednesday, March 19 2025	-	Work in Class	-
12	Wednesday, March 26 2025	❗A6 Demo (3/4)	Work in Class, Technical Speaking, Writing & Branding	-
-	Friday, March 28 2025	❗Bonus Due	-	-
13	Wednesday, April 2 2025	❗A6 Demo (4/4)	Last day of class - Demos of your Software	-
-	Wednesday, April 9 2025	❗A7 Due ❗Participation Comment Due	-	-

Notes

Lectures subject to change.
Zoom link will be provided in the LearnSoftware App. You will be given access via email close to the start of the course.

Summary

Lectures are primarilyy syncronous via the Learn Software application
We will try to bring in some guest speakers
1 TA Lecture
4-5 class working periods
4 Demo periods (part class each time)

Your software

To help you keep on track, here are some general recommendations and guidelines on milestones and goals you should aim for throughout the term. While most of these aren’t mandatory (unless enforced by assignments), following these will help ensure your success and avoid stress and chaos in the last 2 weeks of the course.

You should start a skeleton hello world application as soon as you choose your base tech (Flask, Rails, iOS, etc)
You should start building out a developer environment, CI setup, test infra, and production setup by the end of January
You should start building out functionality no later than mid-February
Your models should also be started no later than mid-February
You should have demoable content by the first week of March
You should have significant demoable content by the last demo
You should be at the point of adding no new major features in April. This should be reserved for polish and bug fixes

Demos

Here is an example of the progress I would expect for each demo slot:

Demo 1: Decisions and Tech Stack, at minimum a Hello World application in your chosen language/platform
Demo 2: Your application running on CI, which means some basic tests (at minimum). It should also be launched onto the web / mobile
Demo 3: Minimal front end, mobile, and back end (as applicable). Starting code for any data models. Some functionality
Demo 4: Full software, general functionality, note any shortcomings or areas to improve. Identify all main use cases implemented

Assignments

Please see the assignments section.