This is a seminar for Masters students in the Swiss Joint Master of Science in Computer Science as well as Bachelors, Masters and PhD students completing their project work or thesis in the Software Composition Group. Scheduled talks generally cover recent progress in project work or research. The seminar normally takes place on Tuesdays at 10h15 in room 107, Schützenmattstrasse 14).

Learning Outcomes

The seminar consists of a project and a presentation. You will have as a mentor one of the members of the SCG and will work on a practical and focused problem in the domain of programming languages and programmer productivity tools.

Seminar students will work on a small, supervised project during the semester. Due to the high cost of supervision, participation is strictly limited (selection will be based on the results of a short quiz).

After the successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Build an Eclipse plugin for static analysis, or
• Write a crawler that analyzes open source software repositories, or
• Create a new method of visualizing software systems, or
• Work on the design and implementation of programming language tools

To prepare your presentation, please consult this checklist.

Scheduled Presentations

2019

• Feb 19 — MSc seminar topic presentations and obligatory quiz.
• Feb 26 — Artthik Sellathurai — Visual scenario builder in Pharo (Bachelors first presentation)
• Mar 5 — TBA (Oscar away?)
• Mar 12 — TBA
• Mar 19 — TBA
• Mar 26 — TBA
• Apr 2 — TBD: Marc-Andrea Tarnutzer — Evaluation Web APIs (Masters, final presentation)
• Apr 9 — TBA
• Apr 16 — TBA
• Apr 23 — Spring break (no seminar)
• Apr 30 — TBA
• May 7 — TBA
• May 14 — TBA
• May 21 — TBA
• May 28 — TBA

Presentations already given in 2019

• Feb 12 — Jonas Richner — Software Developers’ Information Needs (Bachelors final presentation)
• Feb 5 — Manuela Eschler — Search interface implementation for a Learning Management System (Bachelors final presentation)
• Jan 29 — Mario Hess — PerfVis: Visualization in Immersive Augmented Reality for Software Performance - A User Study (Bachelors, final presentation)
• Jan 15 — Dominik Briner — Mobile Security Support for Android Developers (Bachelors)
• Jan 8 — Mathias Birrer — Investigating developer’s questions using web scraping (Seminar)

See also: Past Seminar Presentations