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Summary

We consider some core issues in software engineering.

Related Pages

• EBoard 6

Overview

• Planning for Client Meetings.
• Software Engineering: An Overview.
• Some Important Terms.
• Thoughts from the Readings.

Administrivia

• We now have a class mentor. Welcome to Sooji Son, who will be with us on Mondays and Fridays, and will also set up an evening hour.
• I expect that some of today's conversation will continue into Friday and maybe even Monday.
• A portion of today's CSC 321 will be devoted to CSC 322 issues.

Upcoming Work

• For Friday: Finish the Rails Tutorial Chapter 3 work. (You should be done, but I'm just reminding you.)
• For Friday: Hartl, Chapter 4. (Ruby Review: Almost no new programming!)
• For Friday: SaaSBook, Sections 3.5-3.8. (Week 2 in EdX)
• 10pm Thursday: Reading Journal (on Hartl)
  • Message subject: CSC 321 Journal for Day 7 (Your Name)
  • You have now read three different introductions to Ruby (the Codecademy course, the SaaSbook, and Hartl). What do you see as the major differences between the approaches? What approach do you find most compelling?
  • Now that you've seen a broader introduction to Ruby, what do you consider the most exciting aspects of working with Ruby?
  • What is metaprogramming? In what other languages you've learned can one metaprogram?
  • What aspect or aspects of Ruby confused you the most? Try to explain them in your own words.
    
    • I'll try to talk about all of the confusing aspects you, but I identify might also challenge you to explain things to each other.

Good Things to Do

• Convo, September 8 (Thursday, 11:00 a.m., JRC 101): Roberto Gonzales on "From Undocumented to DACAmented: Understanding Legal Status in a New Policy Context".
  
  • Get a free copy of his book Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America by visiting Macy 203 during regular office times.
• Learning from Alumni Thursday: The Job Board Doctor
• CS Extras Thursday: PM on PL
• SHACS is offering Question, Persuade, & Refer (QPR) training for students, faculty, and staff – this is suicide prevention training run by a national institute. They’re first holding one session with a cap of 30 people for September 13th in ARH 120 from 11 – 12 noon. Email Toby if you're interested.
• CS Table Tuesday: ???
• CS Extras Tuesday night: Google
• Mock Interviews Tuesday

Planning for Client Meetings

• Introduce yourselves!
• Find out ... How to contact them, How much advance notice, ....
• Ask them to describe the project.
• What do they see as the most important thing for you to work on this semester?
• When will you next meet?

Software Engineering

Small group then large group.

• What do you see as the main steps in one iteration of waterfall, spiral, and agile (or at least XP-style agile)
• What do you as the primary relationships between Plan and Document and Agile?
• What do you see as the important agile practices?

Important Terms

• Software as a Service
• Service-Oriented Architecture
• ...

Thoughts from the Readings