Software Development 101

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

Transcript

1. Software Development 101
   A Quick Primer
   

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2. Code is poetry
   - Most wordpress blogs
   

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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 !
   

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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 //
   

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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....
   

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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
   

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7. Variable names
   There are two hard things in computer science: cache
   invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
   

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8. Development Models
   When will this lecture get over?
   

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9. Waterfall Model
   

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10. Iterative Model
    

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12. Some more buzz words
    You don't need to remember them
    

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13. Unit Testing
    

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14. Deployments and automation
    

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15. Questions?
    Coz a ninja won't ask them!
    

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