Difficult Person Hostile-aggressie Bullies, cverwhelms, and intimidates cthers nd up to the hostile ade frot atoers-can t accept feedback on t rush into the worst thing that coul happen?)

Can programming language influence correctness? anguages affect the way we think about problems The tools we use have a profound(and devious) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore on our thinking abilities?

Fairly primitive and predictive power limited Function Points Count number of inputs and output, user interactions, external interfaces files used Assess each for complexity and multiply by a weighting factor Used to predict size or cost and to assess project productivity

A Testing EXercise (From Glenford Myers: The Art of Software Testing A program reads three integer values from a card. The three values are interpreted as representing the lengths of the sides of a triangle. The program prints a message that states whether the triangle is scalene iso

State Machine specifications Define behavior using states and transitions between states

design: added inheritance, multiple inheritance, and polymorphism to ADT In process added complexity and increased some types of connectivity Lots of claimed advantages -- so far empirical evaluation is not supporting them well

Requirements specification: A structured document that sets out the services the system is expected to provide Should be precise so that it can act as a contract between the system procurer and software developer and thus needs to be understandable by procurers and developers

Too complex for complete analysis Separation into non-interacting subsystems distorts the results The most important properties are emergent Too organized for statistics Too much underlying structure that distorts the statistics Organized Complexity\(Weinberg) Copyright Nancy Leveson, Sept 1999

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6.003: Signals and Systems-Fall 2003 Thursday, November 13. 2003 Directions: The exam consists of 5 problems on pages 2 to 19 and additional work space on pages 20 and 21. Please make sure you have all the pages. Tables of Fourier series properties as well as CT Fourier transform and DT Fourier transform properties and pairs are supplied to you as a separate set of pages. Enter all your work and

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6.003: Signals and Systems-Fall 2003 Final Exam Tuesday, December 16, 2003 Directions: The exam consists of 7 problems on pages 2 to 33 and additional work space on pages 34 to 37. Please make sure you have all the pages. Tables of Fourier series properties, CT and DT Fourier transform