Software Development (CSC 321 2015F) : Handouts
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Related Courses: [CSC 321 2015F @ EdX] [Berkeley CS 169 2014F] [CSC 321 2015S (Davis)] [CSC 322 2015F (Rebelsky)]
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This is an approximate schedule. Expect things to change, perhaps significantly
| Date | Topic | Readings | Work Due | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 1 September 2015 | An Introduction to the Course What is this course? Course goals. Why this course? Course structure. Work time. | ||
| 02 | 8 September 2015 | An Introduction to Software Engineering and SaaS What is software engineering? What is SaaS? Course goals, revisited. A quick consideration of Ruby. User stories. Work time. | Chapter 1; Sections 10.1-10.2, 7.1, 7.3-7.4 | |
| 03 | 15 September 2015 | The Ruby Language Important aspects of Ruby. Puzzling aspects of Ruby. Discuss HW1. Start Chapter 4 (with partner). | Chapter 3; Sections 8.1-8.2 | |
| 04 | 22 September 2015 | Ruby on Rails & Software as a Service Software as a Service. The Rails Architecture. Practice. | Chapter 2; Chapter 4 | |
| 05 | 29 September 2015 | Ruby on Rails, Continued Adding a sort feature. Adding a filter feature. Adding persistence. Putting it all together. Morals from the assignment. | ||
| 06 | 6 October 2015 | Behavior-Driven Development BDD Basics. Cucumber Basics. Some Examples. Homework time. | Sections 7.2; 7.5-7.12 | |
| 07 | 13 October 2015 | Codes of Ethics | ||
| Fall Break | ||||
| 08 | 27 October 2015 | Test-Driven Development Review: Buggy code. Loop invariants. Code smells. Test-driven development. Code coverage. Work time. | Sections 8.2-8.6; 9.5 | |
| 09 | 3 November 2015 | Pause for Breah Code smells. Designing databases. Big picture: Rails apps. Medium picture: Restful programming. TDD and BDD, revisited. | ||
| 10 | 10 November 2015 | Advanced Rails | Chapter 5 | |
| 11 | 17 November 2015 | Ethics, Revisited Writing prompt. Three articles. Open questions. Possible approaches to prompt. | Selected Articles | |
| 12 | 24 November 2015 | Agile Project Management and Legacy Code | Chapter 9 and Sections 10.4-10.9 | |
| 13 | 1 December 2015 | Design Patterns for SaaS | Chapter 11 | |
| 14 | 8 December 2015 | Course Wrapup | ||