This website is preserved for historical and scholarly reference and is no longer actively maintained.

241.nw0

Programming Principles for CS Classes

D. E. Stevenson

• Introduction
• Team and the Individual
  • Why Do We Worry About Teams?
  • Assessment
• Programming Projects
  • Basic Concepts
    • Software Construction
  • Prelude to Dealing with Individual Routines
    • Concepts and Paradigms
    • Problem Definition
    • Requirements
    • Architecture
  • The Design Process
    • Abstraction
    • Encapsulation
    • Modularity and Information Hiding
    • Inheritance
  • Designing and Documenting Individual Routines
    • Basic Concepts of Literate Programming
    • Writing Code for LPS
    • Writing Documentation for LPS
    • Program Design Language
  • Quality Issues in Routines
    • Reasons to Create Routines
    • Naming a Routine
    • Cohesion and Coupling
      • Cohesion
      • Coupling
    • Defensive Coding
  • Types
  • Testing
    • Definitions
      • Testing versus Proving
      • Pre- and Post-Conditions
      • Performance Analysis
    • Testing Activities During Design
    • Testing at Programming Time
      • Basis Testing.
      • Data Flow.
      • Control States.
      • Checking Useful Data and Control States.
      • Equivalence Testing.
      • Heuristics.
      • Termination.
  • Grading
  • Miscellaneous Ideas not yet incorporated
• References
• About this document ...