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Usability is an important part of the design process. So far, we have focused on internal design, such as ensuring the system is maintainable, changeable,...
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When you buy software, you almost always buy a license to use the software, rather than the rights to the software itself. But you frequently do not have rights to...
Either solo or in groups of two or three, your objective for this Guided Practice is, given a short program description and problem, look through the design patterns at https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/catalog...
Security is a non-functional requirement, which means it should be pervasive throughout the software system.
“Maintenance” is too often a dirty word in software development… but really only the most skilled developers are good at it! Why does this happen? What skills do you need...
In groups of two or three, you are going to practice doing an object-oriented decomposition of a simple assignment submissions system (think Gradescope).
Design Patterns are proven solutions to design problems. Unlike frameworks, however, design patterns do not come with working code. Instead, they are abstract ideas and structures that can be mimicked....
How do we design an object oriented system? What are the actors (objects)? What are their actions (methods)? How do they interact (relationships)? What different kind of relationships are there?...
What does it mean for code to be modular? When designing a system, what is good modularity?
Either by yourself or in groups of up to three people, you’re going to do some research on two different frameworks for two different programming languages (PHP, Python, Java, or...
With your partners, look at the methods from the API for the OurSet class in Python and fill out the test plan on the next page for the three methods...
Now that we know how individual web applications are built and we know the architectural design patterns used to build those apps… what can we do with them?
