Software Development 101

Basic Software Development 101 Primer.
Talk taken at SDSLabs, IIT Roorkee

1. Software Development 101 A Quick Primer
2. Code is poetry - Most wordpress blogs
3. Good commit messages Let others know what you did Should be self explanatory Should relate to code, not purpose or intent We didn't teach you git for nothin !
4. Comments Comment to explain on a per module basis Travk complex changes in comments Lost of authors Licences Automatic documentation The squiggly things that begin with //
5. Loose coupling Reduce inter dependency of code Make generic classes Abstraction Code becomes easily testable and debuggable This is just another buzz word filler....
6. Indentation What? It is important Readability Stick to the code guide. Create one, if there isn't one Choose from the big projects in the language you are coding in Tabs vs Spaces Missing semicolons
7. Variable names There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
8. Development Models When will this lecture get over?
9. Waterfall Model
10. Iterative Model
12. Some more buzz words You don't need to remember them
13. Unit Testing
14. Deployments and automation
15. Questions? Coz a ninja won't ask them!