Professional Software Development

For Students

Free version: most of what you’ll need to know to “hit the ground running.”

• 0.   Introduction

Part I: Foundations

• 1. The Software Development Life Cycle
• 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

Part III: Productivity & Career

Note

Additional chapters will be available in the paid version. They are not yet complete.

• Part II discusses topics such as version control, documentation, and technical debt.
• Part III discusses work environment, working with people, fostering creativity, and career tips.

Appendix

• About the Author

• Index

Acknowledgements and Thanks

• On the cover:
  • Plot of radio emmisions 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  .
  • “Einstein discovers time is actually money,” courtesy Gary Larson and The Far Side  .
  • “The Race for Quality…”   courtesy Despair, Inc.
• 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.