CISC 3140 Design and Implementation of Software Applications II: Lecture Notes

Introduction to the course

Software Development as a Profession

• What is software? What is considered large-scale software? 
  • What kinds of software are available?
  • What is the purpose of software?
• Programming as an engineering discipline; bugs can kill
• Discuss qualities of a senior software engineer

Challenges faced by Software Teams

• Software Teams and challenges in developing large-scale applications
• “The Mythical Man Month” - Fred Brooks 

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Software Tools and Techniques
Processes & Standards

• Project Planning, Spec Requirements
• Specifications
  • ​Describing programming language syntax (BNF)
  • Writing project requirements
  • Software Manuals

Programming Paradigms - different ways to express problems

• Introducing Programming Paradigms
• Functional & Declarative Programming Paradigms
  • Guile Scheme (https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/)
    • Starting with Scheme

Software Tools needed for remaining lectures and homework

• Unix Terminal
• SSH
• Advance Search Techniques, finding Technical Documentation with search engines

Building large software

• Software Processes
• Configuration Management
  • Centralized vs Decentralized version control systems
    • Git
    • Subversion
• Release Management
• Delivery of Software
  • Principles of Continuous Integration (Slides)
  • What is Continuous Integration? by IBM Cloud (video)

Separation of content and presentation

• Introduction to TeX/LaTeX
• Suggested Reading: LaTeX Tutorial

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Web technologies

Web Development World

• Part 1: [Slides, Video lecture] HTTP Protocol & Markup Languages
• Part 2, HTML/CSS: [Slides, Video lecture] Building for Web Browsers
• Part 3, JavaScript: [Slides, Video lecture]
  • Nuts & Bolts of JavaScript [Slides]

Data Management

• Querying for Data

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Measuring Software

• Software Quality Metrics

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Guest Lectures 

• on Debugging Tools: Interrupts
• on Graphics X-Window System part1, part2