CS 471 Fall 2025: Senior Capstone I

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CS 471 Fall 2025
Senior Capstone I

Department: Computer Science, UAF
Instructor: Glenn G. Chappell
Office: 539 Duckering
Office Hours: In person 11:45–12:45 MWF, 3:30–4:00 MW on fall 2025 class days, or by appointment; private Zoom meetings available on request
E-mail: ggchappell@alaska.edu

Announcements

• [Aug 25] Assignment 1 Posted
  Assignment 1 has been posted. It is due at 5 pm on Tuesday, September 2.
• [Aug 23] Welcome!
  This is the class webpage for CS 471 Senior Capsone I for the fall 2025 semester. Students in the class should check this page daily.

Course Materials

Week	Class Meetings	Readings & Homework	Handouts & Code See Git repository for code
Week 1 Aug 25–Aug 29	Aug 29: Communicating as a software professional (cont’d) Aug 27: Communicating as a software professional Slides [Google Slides] Aug 25: Course introduction Slides [Google Slides]	Assignment 1 (Video Presentation) Due 5 pm Tue, Sep 2 Aug 25: Read “Why does the C++ standard ship every three years?”. The above date is when the reading is assigned. The reading should be completed before the next class meeting.	Semester Plan Updated Sat, Aug 23 Syllabus Distributed in class Mon, Aug 25

Links

Version Control

Git

Git is the the version-control software used in this class. This site includes downloads and a helpful tutorial.

Learn Git Branching

An excellent tutorial. If you are familiar with the Git operations clone, pull, push, add, and commit, but you are having trouble wrapping your head around branching, then this is for you.

Class Git Repository

Source code used in the class will be available in this repository.

Readings / Videos

Why does the C++ standard ship every three years?

Herb Sutter’s answer to the question in the title, this blog post has worthwhile things to say about software project management in general. From the Sutter’s Mill blog.