Some of the topics I would like to discuss during CS 204

-- Test-driven design
-- Use cases / user stories
-- Style: good naming, layout, commenting
-- Functional interface design
-- Command-line interface design
-- Names
-- IDEs and debuggers
-- Version control (git, hg, svn, etc.)
-- Setting up a development environment
-- Documentation: what people need; javadoc/doxygen/pydoc;...
-- Unix commands: cd, ls, rm, rmdir, mkdir, cp, mv, grep, wc, diff, tr, head, tail,...
-- Unix piping. (e.g. my scripts + grep + sowpods.txt)
-- Encoding: UTF-8, UTF-16, Latin-1, etc.
-- REST
-- XML
-- JSON
-- Regular expressions
-- Maintenance & how to prepare for it
-- Assertions
-- Error-handling: exceptions, return values, etc.
-- Profilers
-- Automation in general, Makefiles in particular
-- Client/server structure
-- Third-party libraries
-- Multi-threaded code, thread safety
-- Human interface guidelines
-- UML
-- SQL
-- Development methodologies
-- Design patterns: singleton, factories, MVC, observer, etc.
-- GUI design
-- GUI coding
-- HTML
-- CSS
-- Javascript, jquery
-- Ajax