Software Design

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the practical problems of designing and building large, reliable software systems. Use of modularity, abstraction, encapsulation and software design paradigms will be studied as keys to managing complexity. Course topics will include system formulation and design requirements, software readability, documentation processing tools, testing and logging frameworks, use of external library APIs, version control and integrated development environments, professionalism and customer interaction. Additional topics may include cloud and mobile deployment, graphical user interfaces, database access, performance optimization, concurrency and multi-threading.