Class Meeting: Software Engineering Overview

Admin

• Welcome Duke students
• Web site: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP145/
• mention class notes again... need paper?
• teams are a problem... lost a client.
• new idea: Multi-user VE editor with warping see me after class if you would like to consider working on this one.
• new idea: Web Squirrel

  Notes

  • What will you learn this semester?
    • C/C++
    • Java
    • Perl
    • Unix, RCS, make
    • installation scripts
    • HTML/Web
    • skills and limitations you didn't know you had
    • PATIENCE

  • What will you do this semester?
    • meet
    • write documents
    • meet some more
    • design a system
    • write/test code
    • meet and argue (persuade?)
    • public speaking/presentation
    • produce a polished package
    • function as a team member

  • What is software, and Software Engineering?
    • Overview of the discipline

    • 1994: Software's Chronic Crisis

    • models of the development process