Weekly Assignment -- Due Monday, Sept 21, 6pm

1) Brooks, Chapters 1 (The Tar Pit) and Chapter 2 (The Mythical Man-Month)

2) McConnell, Chapter 4, (Software Development Fundamentals)

Exercises:

1) Provide a list of non-optional and optional items that the "Professor's Web Site Manager" should allow a professor to include in his or her web site. Develop your list by reviewing the existing BU CS professor web sites.

2) Provide a scheme for making certain that only BU CS professors can create a web site, and that the person creating a web site for a professor is, in fact, the professor or someone authorized by the professor to create the web site.

3) Based on what you read in Brooks and McConnell, why can't the Google of today make software changes the way Google did when it was a mere start-up?