1. CS-340 Course Overview
Dr. Wilkerson

2. Dr. Wilkerson - Personal
Contact info: see course website (
First semester as a BYU professor
Taught at Penn State, Erie for 6 years
Michigan, Lansing Mission –
Married and have 5 children
Son, daughter, and son-in-law at BYU
Son on a mission in Lima, Peru, will be at BYU in Fall 2020
1 Nephew and 3 nieces all at BYU
Interests: Skiing, BYU football, time with family
Just hired my 15-year-old daughter to be my piano teacher

3. Dr. Wilkerson - Family

4. Dr. Wilkerson – Work and Education
Earned two degrees from BYU in 1994
Worked in industry for 10 years
Software Engineer
Consultant
Business Owner
Returned to school for Ph.D. at University of Arizona in 2004
Taught MIS at Penn State, Erie for 6 years
Returned to industry for 4 years
Senior Development Manager
Software Engineering Director

5. I Love the Mission of BYU
“To assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life”
That’s why I’m here!

6. Course Overview
Will learn the craft/art of object-oriented design and development
Will focus on software design principles and design patterns
Will reinforce your learning with a significant group project
Will program in Java (even though one of the books is a C# book)

7. Textbooks

8. Course Structure Reading Group Project Exams
Heavy during first two weeks
Group Project
Online, multiplayer Ticket to Ride Game
Designed using UML and implemented in Java
Android or Web front-end
4 – 5 students
Teams formed by Monday of the 3rd week
Exams
One mid-term
One final (comprehensive but waited toward later material)
Must have a combined average of 70% or higher on the two exams to pass the class

9. Course Structure (cont.)
Lectures
Class is two hours (both used for lecture for the first two weeks)
Will give some time back later in the semester (for project work)
Come to class having read the material for the day (see schedule on website)
Other
Some in-class exercises and quizzes
Extra credit presentations
One or two slides ed to Dr. Wilkerson by the previous class day
Slides must contain sources
Course Website:

10. Imposter Syndrome

11. Announcements The west side elevator in TMCB is being replaced
See me if you will have trouble using the stairs to get to the basement TA offices between now and October 20th
Announcements for my section will be posted on Slack
Join the byucompsci org and subscribe to the Wilkerson_cs340 channel
This is really for announcements from Dr. Wilkerson (not monitored by TA’s and not intended to be a help channel)