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Lectures

Lectures will be given live in Franz Hall 1178 each Monday and Wednesday from 4-5:50 PM. Lectures will not be recorded or live streamed.

Lecture presentation slides will be posted before lecture and will only be available to users logging in from their @g.ucla.edu accounts.

Any listed readings are entirely supplemental.


Table of contents

  1. Course overview / Development environments / Source control
  2. Testing
  3. Code Reviews and Web Servers
  4. Build Systems and Deployment
  5. Testing, Refactoring, Dependency Injection
  6. Tips for Testing
  7. Static Analysis
  8. Logging, Midterm review
  9. API Design

Course overview / Development environments / Source control

Lecture
1
Date
Monday, March 31
Links
Slides

Testing

Lecture
2
Date
Wedneday, April 2
Links
Slides

Code Reviews and Web Servers

Lecture
3
Date
Monday, April 7
Links
Slides

Build Systems and Deployment

Lecture
4
Date
Wednesday, April 9
Links
Slides
Reading
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

Testing, Refactoring, Dependency Injection

Lecture
5
Date
Monday, April 14
Links
Slides

Tips for Testing

Lecture
6
Date
Wednesday, April 16
Links
Slides

Static Analysis

Lecture
7
Date
Monday, April 21
Links
Slides
Reading
A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World , Rubber Duck Responds

Logging, Midterm review

Lecture
8
Date
Wednesday, April 23
Links
Slides
Reading
Kqueue: A generic and scalable event notification facility

API Design

Lecture
9
Date
Monday, April 28
Links
Slides

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