APC 460 - Software Engineering Practices

3 Credits

Course Offered

Overview
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Overview

This course covers basic software development methodologies and tools. Methodologies include the waterfall, iterative and agile approaches. Tools include integrated development environments (IDEs), unified modeling language (UML), and testing frameworks. Other topics include requirements analysis, object-oriented analysis, test-driven development, and design patterns. Students will work on a team software project.

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Instructors

Jacob Hendricks

Dr. Hendricks’ is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Wisconsin River Falls. He completed his Ph.D in Computer Science at the University of Arkansas and his MA in Mathematics at the University of Texas. His research interests are two-fold. First, he is interested in the theoretical modeling of…[ Read More ]

Anthony Varghese

Dr. Varghese is a professor of Computer Science and Information Systems at UW-River Falls. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1992 and joined River Falls in 2002. He started using C++ and Java as soon as they were available and developed object-oriented code for a startup named Physiome Sciences, followed by…[ Read More ]

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