Professional Software Development

For Students

Almost everything you’ll need to know to “hit the ground running.”  It’s still a work in progress.

• 0. Introduction

Part I: Foundations

• 1. Overview
• 2. Requirements
• 3. Design
• 4. Construction
• 5. Software Quality
• 6. Release & Maintenance
• 7. Models & Methodologies
• 8. Project Management
• 9. Project Challenges

Part II: Nuts & Bolts

• 10. Version Control Systems
• 12. Regional Concerns
• 13. Character Sets and Encodings

Appendix

• About the Author

• Index

Acknowledgements and Thanks

• On the cover:

  • Plot of radio emissions from Pulsar CP 1919  every 1.33 seconds, as made famous  by the band Joy Division  and designer Peter Saville .

• “Venn Diagram: Programming != Computer Science” , appears courtesy Jan Schaumann @jschauma  by permission.

• “Copying and Pasting from Stack Overflow,” appears courtesy @ThePracticalDev  by permission.

• “My code’s compiling!” , courtesy xkcd by Randall Munroe .

• “How to write an e-mail…”  courtesy “Piled Higher and Deeper,” by Jorge Cham 

• Permission pending:

  • Project Cartoon, appears courtesy projectcartoon.com .  Some work licensed under CC3 .

• Software credits:

  • Book generated with Python  & Sphinx 

    • Theme based on the rtd theme  by readthedocs.org .

  • Directed graphs built with Graphviz .

  • Flowcharts with Dia .

  • Illustrations and edits with Inkscape .

• Clip-art sourced from openclipart.org .

• Font Awesome  appears courtesy Dave Gandy.

• Hosting of the free version of the book: bitbucket.org .

Todo

More than a process

Continuous Integration is backed by several important principles and practices.

(The original entry is located in /media/Data/repos/pro_soft_dev/main/sdlc_4_con.rst, line 2086.)