| Suggested textbooks: these aren't required for the course, but if you're looking for some classics plus some more recent reads in the field they're certainly valuable.
In no particular order: - Clean Code (Martin) - Code Complete (McConnell) - The Pragmatic Programmer (Hunt, Thomas) - The DevOps Handbook (Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis) - The C Programming Language (Kernighan, Ritchie: aka K&R) - The Mythical Man-Month (Brooks) |
| Week | Topics | Resource links | ||||||||||||||||||
| Review/prep (not covered in class) |
intro to linux accounts, ssh, very basic linux | youtube, slides | ||||||||||||||||||
| basic programming tips for ssh/C++ on our systems | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| git submit basics and troubleshooting | youtube, slides, short guide to csci git project/lab submission | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 9-11 | Notes: there is no lecture Sept 7th (VIU closed), and Friday's week 1 lab is a meet-and-greet to set up project teams, attendance required | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course mechanics, administrivia | outline team projects, midterm, final exam | |||||||||||||||||||
| Design and implementation challenges at larger scales | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 14-18 | Intro to SDLCs, waterfall model | youtube, slides | ||||||||||||||||||
| spiral, agile, scrum, and hybrid models | youtube, slides (still need to expand for scrum/hybrid) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Roles/responsibilities in team s.w. development | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 21-25 | Requirements and specifications | youtube, slides | ||||||||||||||||||
| Version control | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| git basics | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 28-O2 | git branch, merge | youtube, slides | ||||||||||||||||||
| git remotes, pull and push | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| managing standard git with a team | Examples: using gitlab/github, or using csci assigned team git repos | |||||||||||||||||||
| Note: no classes Wednesday the 30th,
National Day for Truth and Reconcilliation | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Oct 5-9 | Using AI in CSCI courses | slides | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discussion of trends/impacts of AI on software development | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Code/document standards | youtube, slides, Google's C++ style guide | |||||||||||||||||||
| HCI | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Localization, internationalization, unicode | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Oct 12-17 | Note: no classes Monday (VIU closed for Thanksgiving) but the regular Monday class schedule will be observed on Tuesday | |||||||||||||||||||
| Design concepts and issues | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Modeling: DFDs, ERDs, activity/state/sequence diagrams | notes/examples (borrowed from old old old offering of 375 system analysis):
- process modeling: DFDs, - data modeling: ERDs, - larger DFD/ERD example | |||||||||||||||||||
| Code reuse | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Oct 19-23 | Bug reports, reporting, tracking | youtube, slides | ||||||||||||||||||
| Time estimates and tracking | youtube,
slides
intermediate cocomo (wikipedia) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prep/review for midterm | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Oct 26-30 | Midterm in lecture Oct. 26 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Code and document inspections | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nov 2-6 | Product deployment | youtube, slides | ||||||||||||||||||
| Maintenance and support | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Refactoring | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nov 10-13 | Study week, no labs or lectures | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nov 16-20 | Profilers and profiling | youtube, slides | ||||||||||||||||||
| gprof | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| valgrind for profiling | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| valgrind for debugging | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nov 23-27 | Intro to software testing | youtube, slides | ||||||||||||||||||
| unit testing, stubs and drivers | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| test suite development | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| test automation | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nov 30-D4 | Test driven development | youtube, slides | ||||||||||||||||||
| Service-oriented design models | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Design patterns | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dec 7-11 | Course wrap-up, exam overview (material, question styles, format)
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| Extra content (time permitting) |
Hardware, software, and languages (background) | youtube, slides | ||||||||||||||||||
| Article: Coding habits and their impact on code reviews and maintenance (by M. Lynch) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| linux absolute and relative paths | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| linux command history and options | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| io redirection | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| linux file permissions | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| common environment variables and customizing your bash setup | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| linux process control | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| misc. useful commands/tools | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Compilation and compilers | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Compiling C/C++ with gcc/g++ (options, #includes, guards) | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Automated compilation, makefiles and make | youtube, slides, old makefile notes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Debuggers and debugging | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| gdb and C | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| language-specific debugging | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| General safety principles | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| templated functions and classes | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| C++ stl: stack, list, queue, and iterators | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| stacks example | youtube | |||||||||||||||||||
| Shells, scripting languages and bash | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| - basic bash i/o, syntax | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| - integer and floating point math | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| - if statements and boolean logic | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| - references, quotes, and brackets | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| - loops and iteration, text processing (reading file, command content) | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| - arrays | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| - command line arguments | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| - bash functions, calls and returns | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| - globbing and wildcards in commands | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| - regular expressions and pattern matching | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bash scripting examples | youtube, misc. functions, scripting/git exercise | |||||||||||||||||||
| Recursive directory traversals | youtube, slides | |||||||||||||||||||
| Automated testing with bash and C++: version 1 | youtube, slides, SampleTester.sh | |||||||||||||||||||
| Script for parsing command line arguments | youtube, slides, cmdLineParse.sh | |||||||||||||||||||
| Script (outline) for running a single test case (specified by cmd line args) | youtube, TesterII.sh | |||||||||||||||||||
| Script for running a test suite (using TesterII.sh above) | youtube, TestCollection.sh | |||||||||||||||||||