Grad Software Engineering

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:

The introductory Lecture

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 with jetbrains tools before have a look at this walkthrough

The Introductory Lecture

The automated Testing Slides

Continuous integration (github actions) 

The SQL and database slides

Naming and code metrics

NoSQL database (brushing up against Mongo)

The questions about what sort of developer you will be

A comments and prag programmer chap2 part 1

Pragmatic programming chap2 part 2 and Clean functions

Pragmatic Tools (chap 3)

Intellectual Property notes

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