CSC265 - Course Summary

The problem

The 115 environment

The typical industrial environment

Course theme

"Work smarter not harder"
or
"How to spend your evenings in the pub not the lab"

Four ways to work smarter not harder

  1. Tools: make, db, csh, prof, Perl, etc.
  2. Module decomposition: breaking a complex problem into manageable pieces
  3. Systematic verification: with inspection and testing
  4. Reuse through libraries: character, string, and date handling

Final examination