Software Engineering

Computer Science 164

Harvard College
David J. Malan, Instructor
malan@harvard.edu
http://cs.harvard.edu/malan
Introduction to principles of software engineering and best practices, including code reviews, source control, and unit tests. Topics include Ajax, event handling, HTTP, MVC, object-oriented design, relational databases, and user experience. Projects include web apps with front-end UIs (mobile and desktop) and back-end APIs. Languages include JavaScript and PHP.

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Even if you are not a student at Harvard, you are welcome to "take" this course via cs164.tv by following along via the Internet. (The course's own website is at www.cs164.net.) Available at right are videos of talks, along with PDFs of all handouts. If you have questions or would like to discuss the material with others, do join the course's Google Group.

If you're a teacher, you are welcome to adopt or adapt these materials for your own course, per the license.

Special thanks to Dan Coffey, Shelley Westover, Andrew Hill, Ramon Galvan '16, Cheng Gong '16, and Al Fernandez '16 for the course's videos and to Rob Bowden '13 and Tim Griesser, Spring 2014's team.

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