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Class 7: An introduction to software engineering

Held: Monday, 6 February 2017

Preliminaries

Overview

  • Model/View/Controller frameworks
  • RESTful programming
  • Models of software engineering
  • Important agile practices
  • Why agile?
  • Why not agile?

Updates

News / Etc.

Upcoming work

Good things to do

Nope, no extra credit.

  • CS Table, Tuesday, 7 Feb 2017. Something on privacy.
  • Scholars Convocation, Thursday, 9 Feb 2017, 11:00 a.m., JRC 101. David Orr: Climate Change and the Crisis of American Democracy.
  • Thursday extras, Thursday, 9 Feb 2017, 4:15 p.m., Science 3821: Something on computer graphics (visitor from UMN).

MVC, Revisited

RESTful Software

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?
  • What are reasons to use agile?
  • What are reasons not to use agile?

Important Terms

  • Software as a Service
  • Service-Oriented Architecture

Thoughts from the Readings