1 Motivation & Overview🔗

4 September 2024

1.1 What is it sw? What is sw dev about? 🔗

• where is sw? ubiquitous; where are jobs in sw [5-10min]

  • ask students what they want to be when they grow up (as in what they want to work on; get to know their names)

  • reality:

    • 15% in web/media/on-line

    • 10% finance

    • 5% health

    • 12% other

• what is the typical life of sw? [10-15 min]

  • rapid death or extremely long-term survival

  • sw is a message to the future:

    • in many cases it’s an older version of you.

  • do you want to be good to the recipient of this sw? –> socially responsible

• the position of this course in the curriculum [5-10min]

  • Developing Developers

• Sw Dev vs Sw Eng [1-2min]

  • the existing courses

  • the discipline

1.2 Pairs and PLs 🔗

• MUST pair up students [5-10min]

• MUST point students to the sign-up form on front page of the course [1-2min]

1.3 Prepares TAHBPL/A🔗

• explain spec in THBPL/A [2-5 min]

• [1-2min] MUST demo assignment THBPL/Code/A ‘xjson‘ (CMD LINE, short code)

• [10min] code walk a solution

1.4 Administrivia (time permitting) 🔗

• [5min] or nothing

TOTAL: 45-66 mins