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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