Software Engineering

New York University

Department of Computer Science

Schedule

Date	Class	Topics	Notes	Helpful resources	Quiz due	Exercise due
9/6	1	Welcome	Course intro	Syllabus
9/11	2	Software engineering overview	- Discord for Education - Software engineering overview	- Missed Expectations: Where CS Students Fall Short in the Software Industry - Advice for Computer Science College Students, from Joel on Software - Four Ways to Make CS & IT Curricula More Immersive, by Thomas A. Limoncelli	Intake questionnaire	- Complete consent form - Join Discord - Create GitHub account
9/13	3	Version control	- Version control - Git & GitHub	- Video: Version control - Atlassian git workflow comparison	Development processes

Gather requirements, draft a product specification for a mobile application, and build a clickable prototype.

Date	Class	Topics	Notes	Helpful resources	Quiz due	Exercise due
9/18	4	- Project 1 kick-off - System specification	- Requirements engineering - Domain modeling - UML diagrams	Video course: Requirements Elicitation & Analysis, on LinkedIn Learning	Git & GitHub	Git workflow practice
9/20	5	User experience design & prototyping	- User experience design - Figma essentials - Example prototype	- How to Wirefrane by Figma Marketing - Figma essentials	Requirements engineering
9/25	n/a	no class (Yom Kippur)
9/27	6	Project work			User experience design
10/2	7	Stakeholder demos				Project 1

Build a mobile web application.

Date	Class	Topics	Notes	Helpful resources	Quiz due	Exercise due
10/4	8	- Project 2 kick-off - Web architecture	Web architecture	Video: Web architecture
10/9	n/a	no class (Fall Break)
10/10	9	MongoDB CRUD	MongoDB CRUD	Video: MongoDB	Web architecture
10/11	10	Flask & pymongo	- Virtual environments - Flask & pymongo - Example web app	Grinberg, Miguel: The Flask Mega-Tutorial	MongoDB CRUD
10/16	11	Project work			Flask & pymongo
10/18	n/a	no class (Prof. out)
10/23	12	Stakeholder demos				Project 2

Build and test with continuous integration.

Date	Class	Topics	Notes	Helpful resources	Quiz due	Exercise due
10/25	13	- Project 3 kick-off - System building	- System building - Example Python package	-How to Publish an Open Source Python Package to PyPI - Python Packaging User Guide
10/30	14	Software testing	- Software testing - Unit testing	Effective Python Testing With Pytest	System building
11/1	15	Continuous integration	Continuous integration		Software testing
11/6	16	Project work			Continuous integration
11/8	17	Stakeholder demos				Project 3

Containerized apps composed of multiple internetworked subsystems.

Date	Class	Topics	Notes	Helpful resources	Quiz due	Exercise due
11/13	18	- Project 4 kick-off - Virtualization & containers	Virtualization & containers	- Docker Tutorial for Beginners, by Programming with Mosh - Play with Docker - Access camera and microphone from web browser: this - Access camera from Docker container: this, this and this - Access microphone from Docker container: this
11/15	19	Container orchestration		- Docker Compose Tutorial, by Programming with Mosh
11/20	20	Project work			Virtualization & containers
11/22	no class
11/27	21	Stakeholder demos				Project 4

Putting it all together.

Date	Class	Topics	Notes	Helpful resources	Quiz due	Exercise due
11/29	22	Project 5 kick-off
12/4	23	Deployment	Deployment	Digital Ocean referral link
12/6	24	Project work
12/11	25	Release management	Release management
12/13	26	Project work			Release management
12/19 @14:00 - 15:50	27	Final project presentations	Project presentations			Project 5 No late work accepted beyond this date

Material that is not currently included in the course, but may be of interest to some:

Date	Class	Topics	Notes	Quiz
n/a	n/a	GitHub for Collaboration	GitHub for Collaboration	GitHub for Collaboration
n/a	n/a	Team Psychology	Team Psychology	Teamwork
n/a	n/a	Bash scripting	Bash scripting	Bash scripting
n/a	n/a	Design patterns	Design patterns	Design patterns
n/a	n/a	Change management	Change management