Professional Programming

The topics include, but are not limited to:
-Using version control in teams
-Coding styles
-Comparative languages
-Bug tracking and solving
-Commenting styles
-Deployment of applications
-Integrating libraries
-Developing library modules
-Debugging
-Testing
-Deployment
-Continuous Integration

The students will learn skills and knowledge related to developing a project using the principles of professional software development.

Knowledge:
-Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of different programming languages
-Understanding the need for process control, and communication systems for software development

Skills:
-Use of version control systems in large development projects, including ticket tracking, branching, SKUs and deployment
-Ability to comment code in accordance with an agreed standard and in a professional manner
-The ability to program for clarity
-Develop and build library components for larger systems
-Integration of multiple libraries into a large project
-Perform code reviews

General Competence:
-Professionalism in approach to software development
-Give and receive critisim of coding practices and decisions
-Ask accurate questions to solve logical and programming problems

-Group work
-Project work

Further information:
The main teaching method for this course will be group meetings with code reviews. Students will present their work and have that worked review in front of the group.  This allows students to learn from each other, and helps students learn to present their code and defend their coding decisions