Thomas A. Alspaugh's Foundations Material thomasalspaugh.org/pub/fnd/index.html

Mathematical and Logical Foundations

• Sets
• Relations, equivalence relations, order relations
• Correspondences, functions, mappings
• Ordered sets
• CPOs and lattices
• Graphs
• Powersets
• Binary and other strings
• Logic terms and concepts
• Allen's interval algebra
• “It’s Greek to me”—reading, pronouncing, and spelling some troublesome symbols and words

Human Foundations

• Glossary of Terms Outside Computer Science
• Abstracts
• Toulmin's Structure of Arguments
• Case Based Teaching
• The Inquiry Cycle
• Hohfeld's Legal Relations
• Negotiation
• Presentations
• Teamwork

Software Development Foundations

Requirements

• Elicitation “Quick Start”
• Glossaries and Ontologies
• Goals and Goal Graphs
• i*
• SCR-style Requirements
• Tracing

Specifications

• Alloy
• Entity-Relationship Diagrams
• FSP and Labeled Transition Systems
• Grammars and Languages
• Message Sequence Charts (MSCs)
• Regular Expressions
• Statecharts

Java

• Coding Standards
• Design Patterns
• Javadoc
• Java Packages
• Java Types, Interfaces, and Classes

XML, HTML

• XHTML and HTML
• XML Schemas
• XSL Transformations (XSLT)

I would like to thank the many students (and other readers) whose suggestions and comments have improved these pages markedly.  All remaining flaws are due to the author.  Please contact me if you find an error. 

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