CS257 Software Design
Monday, 19 September 2022

0. Clone a copy of my GitHub repository to your working computer.
You'll need it.

    git clone https://github.com/ondich/cs257_2022_fall jeff

1. Today
- Books project overview
    - Key topics: TDD, CLI design, CSV files,
        code quality, python csv & argparse
- CLI design
    - readings
    - observations from man pages
    - what's due tomorrow
- Find your partner for the CLI
- Unit testing in Python
    - TDD reading
    - some basics
    - lab exercise
- Questions about anything

2. Books project
- The data
- The operations
- Test-driven development
- Order of development
    - design the CLI (Tuesday)
    - write unit tests in python (Friday)
    - implement the CLI in python (Wednesday)
    - code review (Friday)
    - revision (the following week)

3. CLI design
    - looking at manual pages
        git-style vs. ls-style
        various "Synopsis" notations
        - vs. --
        Unix style vs. MS-DOS style vs. ...
            the endurance of Unix
    - Observations from the readings
    - What I'm hoping for in tomorrow's assignment

4. Meet your partner
    - Schedule work time
    - Start work on CLI design

5. Wrap-up, questions


What are the benefits and problems with the following styles of command-line design for the current project?

SYNOPSIS
    python3 books.py titles ...
    python3 books.py authors ...
    ...

SYNOPSIS
    python3 books.py [--titles] [--authors]...

SYNOPSIS
    python3 books.py [--titles | --authors]...

SYNOPSIS
    (something else...?)