Dev Seminar/Capstone

Resources

More Reading on common themes in the class

• An introduction to Automated Testing
• or if you are willing to read about it, this is probably even better
• An example of how bad code can live on - forever.
• A TDD book using Python from a few years ago
• A free online book about being a professional Software Developer

Tools for class:

• Slack - an important collaboration tool used in many businesses.
• Jetbrains student signup Get pycharm/intelliJ or golang to build your software.
• Version control
• just like nearly everyone in the world we'll use git for version control
• for server based version control, We'll use either
• github or
• gitlab
• CI systems (TBA)

Podcasts - a great way to keep current:

• Soft skill engineering podcast an often overlooked part of our field
• Talk python  a good way to explore new things in python
• Programming Throwdown one of the oldest and widely respected developer podcasts.

Book:

The website for your book, the pragmatic programmer 20th anniversary edition The site includes source code and errata

Lecture Notes:

From time to time I might put the lecture notes from my lectures here - but they are my notes to guide the seminar discussion - they likely won't help you by themselves.

• If you have never used git and github through jetbrains tools before Have a look at this walk through
• The introductory lecture
• The automated Testing Slides
  
• Continuous Integration (with Github actions)
• The SQL and Database Slides
• Naming, Code metrics, Versioning and other early considerations
• The questions about what sort of developer you will be
• A comments and prag programmer chap2 part 1
• Document Databases
• Pragmatic programming chap2 part 2 and Clean functions
• Pragmatic Tools (chap 3)
• Intellectual Property notes