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Agile—A Software Development Methodology
Agile: Standups—A timeboxed standing meeting to help team make progress
Agile: Team Norms—Groundrules set by a team that promote effective and harmonious teamwork and productivty
Agile: User Stories—As a (who?) I can (what?) so that (why?)
Ant—Apache Ant, a build tool for Java (similar to Make/Makefiles)
Antipatterns: —Things to avoid in your code
Antipatterns: inheritance—When NOT to use inheritance
APIs: —Application Programming Intefaces
APIs: Free—Some APIs that offer free access
Applications Programming—A compendium of knowledge and skills applications programmers (software developers) need
Bug Reports—The typical format: STR, observed, desired
Changelog—A Software Development Methodology
CI: —Continuous Integration--automatically testing after every commit
Code Review—A team activity to improve the code base and the product
Code Smells—Common problems that arise in code
Code Style—formatting, indenting, names, and much more
Code Style: astyle—automatic code indenting tool available on CSIL
Course Policies—Explanations of why certain instructors do things they way they do them.
Course Policies: Answer Keys—Why do you not provide answer keys for all your old exams?
CSIL—Computer Science Instructional Lab machines
CSIL: browser from command line—How to open a browser from the command line
CSIL: disk quota and file quota issues—How to diagnose and fix
CSIL: git configuration—Configuring your CSIL account to use git
CSIL: Remote Host Id Changed—The scary REMOTE HOST ID CHANGED message with mention of SOMETHING NASTY
CSIL: ssh port forwarding—How to access webapps running on CSIL from your local machine
CSIL: via ssh from Linux—Connecting via ssh from the command line
CSIL: Via MacOS—Accessing CSIL from your MacOS system
CSIL: via ssh from Windows—Connecting via PuTTY/XMing or MobaXterm
Data—Various sources for datasets to build applications with
Design: —Waterfall, Agile, Rational Unified Process, etc.
Design Patterns—software structures that are easier to change
Design Patterns: Strategy—Define multiple algorithms and let client application pass the algorithm to be used as a parameter.
Eclipse—One of several choices for a Java IDE
Enviroment Variables—Reading them from Java code
Firebase—A Google sponsored app development platform
Frameworks—Software that helps you write other software
Game Programming—How to make Java work for Games
Gauchospace: Clickable URLs—In assignment submissions, urls should be clickable
git and github—version control, source code configuration and project collaboration tools
git: basic workflow—The basics: git add..., git commit..., git push ...
git: cloning your first repo—A guide for those new to git
git: commit messages—How to write clear and helpful commit messages
git: feature branch workflow—One branch per feature/issue/story
git: git/github troubleshooting—Various problems and their solution
git: .gitignore files—What they are for and what to put in them
git: merge conflicts—Not nearly as scary as you may have been told
git: overview—An introduction. git vs. github.com vs. github.ucsb.edu, repos, etc.
git: throwaway untracked files—how to clean up untracked files easily
github: adding collaborators—giving individual users access to a private repo
github: api—Java Api for Github
github: branch protection—making sure PRs to master get code reviewed, for example
github.com: creating private repos under an organization—for closed source class assignments
github: issues—working with issues in github
github: keyboard shortcuts—making the github web UI easier to use
github: pro tips—A few extras to help you work with GitHub more effectively
github: using ssh keys—generating public/private key pair, uploading public key to github
github: ucsb-cs-github-linker—Using the local tool to join a course organization
github.ucsb.edu: creating private repos under an organization—for closed source class assignments
github: verified badge on commits—adding extra security to your commit messages
Google:—Using Google Products in CS48
Google: Cloud Credits—What they are good for, and how you can get them
Google: Developer Console—The place you configure OAuth, APIs, etc.
Gradescope—System for homework grading, feedback and submission
Gradescope: Organization Access—How to enable access to organization repos
Gradescope: Regrade Requests—What to do if you have questions about the grading of a problem (e.g. you think there was a grading error)
Gradescope: Student Self-Submission—Scanning your assignment to PDF
Heroku—A cloud computing platform
Heroku: Troubleshooting—Solutions to common problems and errors
IDEs for Java—Integrated Development Environments for Java (IntelliJ, Eclipse, Netbeans, etc.)
JDBC—Java Database Connectivity--a way to use SQL-based databases with Java
Jekyll—Creating web sites (like this one) on github-pages using Markdown
JSON: —JavaScript Object Notation
JSON: Jackson—A Java Package for processing JSON
Kanban: —visualization of work in progress
localhost—What does it mean to run a web server on localhost?
Lombok: —Automatic generation of getters/setters, etc.
MacOS—Setting up an environment to do CS56 work on your own Mac (not ssh'ing into CSIL)
MacOS: Homebrew—Package installer for Mac OS
Markdown—A simplified syntax to create formatted documents
Maven—A build tool for Java plus a package manager
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)—Simplest thing that a customer would actually use
MongoDB—A particular NoSQL database platform
MongoDB: Cloud Atlas Setup—Setting up MongoDB Cloud Atlas (for new users)
MongoDB: Cloud Atlas Sharing—Sharing a Cloud Atlas Setup
MongoDB: Mlab—A cloud provider of MongoDB databases with a free tier
MongoDB: NextJS Guide—How database operations in NextJS differ from examples in standard node
MongoDB: NextJS Setup—Configurig your NextJS app for MongoDB
MongoDB: Spring Properties—How to set properties for connecting to MongoDB when using Spring
Node—A JavaScript based backend web framework
OAuth—The way we implement the 'login with Google, Facebook, or Github' thing you see on some websites
OAuth: Authorizing GitHub Third Party Apps—Gradescope, and GitHub OAuth Apps you build yourself
OAuth: GitHub Setup—Setting up a GitHub OAuth App to obtain client id and client secret
OAuth: Google Setup—Setting up a Google OAuth App to obtain client id and client secret
OOP—Object Oriented Programming
Personas—Ficticious users of our product that help us develop our stories
PL: —Programming Languages (comparisons, analysis)
Port Numbers—Those numbers such as 8080, 12345 that show up when doing networking things
Postgres—An implementation of an SQL relational database, available on Heroku
Postman—A tool for testing HTTP based APIs
Python: OpenCV—Installing OpenCV for Python
React—A front-end framework for webapps and native apps
Refactoring—
REST—RESTful APIs, etc (Representational State Transfer)
Retros: —The heart of agile is inspect and adapt; retrospective meetings ('retros') help make sure we do that
Retros: Darby/Larsen Five Step Retro—(1) Set Stage, (2) Gather Data, (3) Generate Insights, (4) Decide What To Do, (5) Close Retro
Retros: Stop-Start-Continue—A three step formula for running a retro
Scrum—A Software Development Methodology
Selenium—Remote Control of a Browser (e.g. for end-to-end testing of webapps, web scraping)
Selenium: Driver Setup—Setting up your driver
Semantic Versioning—A set of rules for assigning meaningful version numbers
Slack—A chat-based communication tool for teams
Sockets—An abstraction used in networking
Software Engineering—What is meant by this term?
Spring Boot: —A Java web application framework
SQL—SQL-based relational databases (sqlite3, Postgres, MySQL, etc.)
Style—Standards and Tools for Code Style
$T and $B—Using environment variables to make navigating a src tree less painful
TDD: (Test Driven Development)—General information about best practices
Teams: —Information about working in teams
Teamwork—Practices for setting up a harmonious and productive team
Test Driven Development (TDD)—General information about best practices
Testing—Everything having to do with testing: Unit testing, Integration Testing, Test Coverage
Testing: Acceptance Testing—Criteria for being 'done' with an issue
Testing: Agile Testing (Crispin and Gregory)—Material from the book by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
Testing: Automation—How to make testing an automatic part of your process
Testing: End to End Testing—Intro to End to End Testing, and Framework Specific Examples
Testing: Jacoco Reports—How to interpret the reports (red, yellow, green)
Testing: Jacoco via Maven—Setting up Jacoco test coverage, using Maven
Testing: Unit Testing with Jest—Setting up Jest for Next.JS projects
Testing: Mocking—Intro to Mocking in Tests, and Framework-specific Examples
UML—Unified Modeling Language: A graphical language for software design
Unix (and Linux)—A variety of resources related to Unix and Linux, esp. command line tools
Unix: Misc tools—Various useful command line tools you may not know about
Unix: Search/Replace across multiple files—from the command line, using grep, sed, etc.
User Stories: —As a (who?) I can (what?) so that (why?)
User Stories: INVEST—Good user stories are: Indepenent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimatable, Small and Testable
vim—a widely used text editor among Unix users
vim: basic eight—eight things you need to know how to do for your survival
vim: customization—customizing vim for your purposes
vscode—Visual Studio Code, a lightweight free editor from Microsoft with many IDE features
Waterfall—A model of the Software Design Life Cycle (SDLC) from the 1970s
Windows—Setting up an environment to do CS56 work on your own Windows machine (not ssh'ing into CSIL)
Windows: WSL—Setting up the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
X11—Dealing with X11 DISPLAY issues
YAML—An alternative to XML and JSON for representing structured data in a machine and human readable format
Zoom—Teleconferencing tool