The Capstone course sequence presents an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to real industry problems. Student teams work on challenging problems suggested by industry leaders. Solutions to these problems require innovative approaches that are at the frontier of the available technology.

CS189A is the first of the two courses that form the Capstone project sequence. The goal of this first course (189A) is to develop a prototype for the selected project. The subsequent, second course (189B in the spring quarter) ends with a presentation day in which the completed projects are demonstrated publicly. During this class, we will also learn about software engineering approaches as well as techniques and tools to manage software project development.

• Sign up for the CS189 Capstone Google Group

• Winter 2012 CS189A Teams and Project Selections

• Upcoming speakers:
  Jan 12: Industry pitches (class: Novacoast, Procore, LCOGT; evening session: Aerospace, Microsoft, Qualcomm, iBreathe)
  Jan 19: Colin Kelly of Ring Revenue
  Jan 26: Ross Hale of SocialStay
  Feb 2: Vic Iglesius of Eucalyptus Systems
  Feb 9: Raj Chohan and Chris Bunch of UCSB's AppScale Team
  Feb 16: Andrew Mutz of AppFolio
  Feb 23: Khawaja Shams of JPL
  Mar 1: John Spann of Citrix Online

Required Book: "Agile Software Development with Scrum" by K. Schwaber and M. Beedle

• Attendance (mandatory for both lectures and discussion section).
• Required readings. See the lectures page (grep for "Required") for the due dates for each.
  The readings appear on the date on which you are responsible for their content.
  This includes chapters from the required book listed above.
• Quizzes: Given at the start of randomly selected class periods.
  Can be on the required readings or the Tuesday class or Friday discussion topics from the previous week.
• Group participation: your group/peers will also give you a grade to reflect the level of effort and contributions to the project over the course of the quarter.