COSC 494/594: Software Development Tools
Spring 2021Online
Tue/Thu 1:10pm-2:25pm
Instructor: Austin Henley (azh@utk.edu)
Syllabus
Schedule
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| Week 0 - 1/20 | Introduction (slides) | |
| Week 1 - 1/25 | Project Details (slides)
Do Developers Discover New Tools On The Toilet? (paper) |
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| Week 2 - 2/1 | Overview of CPython Internals (slides) | |
| Week 3 - 2/8 | Feature request (document)
Team updates pip (web), venv (web) |
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| Week 4 - 2/15 | Usability Engineering (slides part 1, part 2)
Bytes in the Machine: Inside the CPython interpreter (video) |
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| Week 5 - 2/22 | Usability Engineering
Dockerizme: Automatic Inference of Environment Dependencies for Python Code Snippets (paper) |
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| Week 6 - 3/1 | Guest lecture by Dr. Rhema Linder: Evaluation Methods (slides)
Programmers are Users Too: Human Centered Methods for Improving Tools for Programming (paper) |
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| Week 7 - 3/8 | Team updates
Evaluation Methods review |
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| Week 8 - 3/15 | Guest lecture by Ben Klein: Python's Most Underrated Feature: Decorators (slides, web) | |
| Week 9 - 3/22 | Chaos Engineering (web)
Why We Need More Chaos (video) Software Testing (slides) |
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| Week 10 - 3/29 | Unit testing in Python (example code and tests)
CFar: A Tool to Increase Communication, Productivity, and Review Quality in Collaborative Code Review (paper) |
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| Week 11 - 4/5 | No class | |
| Week 12 - 4/12 | Debugging in Python
Profiling in Python |
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| Week 13 - 4/19 | Let's make a game | |
| Week 14 - 4/26 | Let's make a game |