Software Flaws

Overview

Discussion of project status; Discussion of videos on Software Flaws.

Preparation and Readings

• Three Flaws in Software Design - Watch these 4 video talks (total length about 1 hour) with Google developer Max Kanat-Alexander on common flaws in software. These are based on the book Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software by Max Kanat-Alexander.

• Post questions for class discussion to the Moodle forum. Please also feel free to comment on or respond to others’ questions as appropriate.

Supplemental Readings

• Top 15+ Best Practices for Writing Super Readable Code - Some solid advice on writing good code by Burak Guzel.

• Coding Without Comments - Some insight in to when comments are necessary and not by Jeff Atwood - co-founder of Stack Overflow. Links in the post lead to some other related posts about commenting.

• 5 Best Practices for Commenting Your Code - Good advice on how to comment (and not comment) effectively by johnFuex.

• Max Kanat-Alexander’s blog on Code Simplicity has some thought provoking posts.

Homework

• Project Activities (Teams)

• 5-15 (Team)