Programming Excellence

• Basic programming experience

This course is intended for

• Beginner or intermediate programmers and developers

Format of the course

•     Part lecture, part discussion, hands-on practice

Introduction to excellent programming

• Designing software that is maintainable
• Designing software that is reliable
• Designing software that is efficient
• Designing software that is usable

Design patterns

Anti-patterns

The software life cycle

• Conventional development model
• Agile development
  • Iterative software development
• Choosing the right language for the job
  • Functional languages
  • Procedural languages
  • Declarative languages
  • Imperative languages
  • Object oriented programming
  • Programming frameworks
    • Model View Controller (MVC)

Maintainability

• consistency
• cohesion
• simplicity
• dependencies
  • Inversion of control (IoC)
• commenting

Reliability

Testing your software as you create it

Efficiency

• Refactoring

Usability

• How will the end user use the software?
• How will international users use your software?
• Internationalizing your software

Building and releasing software

Summary and conclusion