Software Design at sfX

The Complex is hosting a 3-credit course in software design beginning Saturday, February, 28. The class is a fully accredited undergraduate, upper division program through New Mexico Highlands University taught by Dave West, who has been a professor at NMSU, the College of Santa Fe, and the University of St. Paul in Minnesota.

Professor West’s focus areas are in design, objects, agility, modeling and architecture utilizing Smalltalk with Web tools (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, et al). This freeform class is project based. Anyone interested in working on a project at the Complex and earning college credit for that work is invited to enroll. High school students may enroll (some exposure to computing and programming is assumed).

Course Description:
Students taking this course will develop and improve their skills in problem analysis, solution design, and solution implementation (programming) by completing one or more projects while working as a team with guidance and mentoring from faculty and professionals. Students will select from existing projects or define their own projects in areas ranging from agent-based modeling, to multi-media (game) programming, to Web-site development.

If you plan to work with Fabio’s group when they come to the Complex in March, you can earn college credit for your work by enrolling now. If you plan to participate in one a workshop (e.g. a planned week long GLASS – Gemstone-Linux-Apache-Squeak-Seaside – workshop) and want to earn college credit, please enroll.

If you have a project that you are conducting at the Complex, or would be willing to undertake at the Complex, please let us know and help us recruit students to work with you.

Meeting Dates and Times:
The first meeting of the class will be Monday, January 26, 5:30 to 9:00 pm, at the Santa Fe Complex, 632 Agua Fria, in Santa Fe. Meeting times after this first meeting will be entirely project specific and each project team
will determine when to complete the work.

Enrollment:
Students must complete an enrollment application and a Course Add Form (available at the Santa Fe Complex) and pay a $15 application fee plus tuition of $330. Minimum enrollment is ten.

For more information, call Dave West at 505/426.9850 (h) or 505/231.7233 (c) or email him at profwest@fastmail.fm. Or, contact Santa Fe Complex at 505/216.7562.