Learning Outcomes What you will know

Understand how to succeed in ICS 314

• You understand the goals, structures, and procedures for learning in ICS 314.
• Your computer and its software is adequate to support the experiences you will have in this course.

Referencing modules: Introduction

Create a high quality professional persona

• You can join and participate in two professional networks (LinkedIn, hawaii.slack.com).
• You can design and implement a high quality website providing a portfolio of your professional accomplishments and interests.

Referencing modules: Professional Persona

Create high quality technical essays

• You demonstrate the ability to write professional-quality technical essays.

Referencing modules: QA Part 1: Coding standards, Configuration management, Design Patterns, Final Project, Open Source Software, Professional Persona, Typescript 1: Basics, UI Design (Frameworks)

Competent in a hackathon setting

• You are comfortable signing up for and attending a hackathon.
• You are able to join teams and help develop an interesting and innovative project idea.
• You can employ your software engineering skills and technology stack to rapidly develop prototype solutions.

Referencing modules: HACC

Use and develop open source software appropriately

• You can choose a suitable open source license for your projects.
• You can create software projects that satisfy the three prime directives and thus can support an open source community.
• You can interact with the open source community via appropriate questions and forums.

Referencing modules: Open Source Software

Fundamental Javascript and Typescript

• You can use basic Javascript constructs: variables, functions, conditionals, loops, arrays, objects.
• You understand the purpose of Typescript as an extension of Javascript and how to use Typescript through transpilation.
• You can use basic Typescript constructs: Types,Enums,Generics,Modules,Type Aliases,Union and Intersection Types,Type Assertions
• You understand Typescript inferred typing and type manipulation
• You understand the ES6 style and demonstrate good practices for Javascript/Typescript
• Your first experience with Athletic Software Engineering through workouts of the day (WODs)

Referencing modules: QA Part 1: Coding standards, Final Project, Typescript 1: Basics, Typescript 3: Functional programming

Competent with Typescript Object orientation

• You can use basic Javascript OO constructs: class, extends, Object, Prototypes
• You can implement object orientation using the ES6 class construct.
• You understand Javascript prototypical OO vs class-based OO
• You can use basic Typescript OO constructs: Class, Interfaces, Decorators
• You can use ES6 String Templates

Referencing modules: Typescript 2: Object orientation

Use configuration management tools and techniques effectively

• You understand the motivation for version control and configuration management
• You can use git commands to support version control.
• You can set up a GitHub account and use it to manage files.
• You can implement project enhancements by creating and merging branches.

Referencing modules: QA Part 1: Coding standards, Configuration management, Final Project

Understand the software deployment process

• You understand the general issues involved in software deployment.
• You can deploy a Nextjs application to the cloud hosting environment.

Referencing modules: Deployment

Behave ethically as a software engineer

• You understand the need for both personal and professional ethics.
• You can analyze the ethical implications of software engineering practices that can incur harm.
• You understand how ethical practice involves not just avoiding harm, but doing good.
• You can apply five ethically constructive habits of mind and action.
• You are aware of the two ACM Codes related to ethics and can apply them to your practice.
• You can apply ethical principles to controversies such as online harrassment and privacy.

Referencing modules: Ethics in Software Engineering

Understand how to perform agile project management using GitHub and Issue-Driven Project Management

You understand how to apply Issue-Driven Project Management using the GitHub hosting service to implement a simple agile software process.

Referencing modules: Agile Project Management

Use an IDE (VSCode) effectively

• You can use VSCode easily and effectively for source code construction and modification.
• You can configure VSCode to load within 10 seconds.
• You have learned keybindings necessary to use VSCode efficiently for Typescript programming.

Referencing modules: QA Part 1: Coding standards, Development Environments, Final Project

Efficiently create software that conforms to standards

• You understand the benefits of coding standards and why they improve the quality and efficiency of software development.
• You can recognize the presence (or absence) of standards and make software conform if necessary.
• You can take advantage of tool support to automate compliance with certain standards.

Referencing modules: QA Part 1: Coding standards, Final Project

Design and implement effective test suites

• You understand the concepts of unit, integration, and acceptance testing
• You can design a set of acceptance tests to ensure that all pages display and all forms work for correct inputs in your application.
• You can set up continuous integration for your project using GitHub Actions.

Referencing modules: Testing

Design and implement web pages using HTML and CSS

• You can use HTML and CSS to design basic web pages.
• You can use tools (VSCode, and Chrome Developer Tools) to design and implement pages quickly.

Referencing modules: Final Project, UI Design (Basics)

Design using React

• You understand basic principles of React: JSX, properties, components.
• You can build simple prototypes using the React version of Bootstrap 5.

Referencing modules: UI Design (React)

Design using a UI framework

• You can use the Bootstrap 5 framework to design usable, responsive, and attractive web pages.

Referencing modules: UI Design (Frameworks)

Design using Nextjs Framework

• You understand basic principles of Nextjs: collections, publications, reactive variables.
• You can develop basic CRUD applications quickly and effectively.
• You can implement authentication and authorization.
• You can use extensions and templates: Bootstrap 5, App Router, nextjs-application-template-react.

Referencing modules: Application Design (Nextjs), Part 1, Application Design (Nextjs), Part 2, Application Design (Nextjs), Part 3

Design using PostgreSQL

• You understand basic principles of databases: normal forms, SQL vs. noSQL vs. OO, etc.
• You can develop basic databases in PostgreSQL efficiently and effectively.

Referencing modules: Application Design (Nextjs), Part 3, Databases (PostgreSQL)

Understand the use of design patterns in software engineering

• You understand what a design pattern is and why they are useful in software engineering.
• You understand the definitions of the following design patterns: Singleton, MVC, Observer, Factory, Publish-Subscribe, Prototype, Front Controller
• You can recognize various design patterns in software systems and apply them to your systems when desirable.

Referencing modules: Design Patterns

Practice simple project planning techniques

Learn to collaborate more efficiently in a team by breaking a project into sequence of milestones, and each milestone into issues which are assigned to group members and tracked in GitHub.

Referencing modules: Final Project, Agile Project Management

Write useful project documentation

Learn to write user and developer-level documentation.

Referencing modules: Final Project, Agile Project Management