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This is a course homepage for 01219245/01219246 Individual Software Process and Individual Software Process Lab.

Announcements

• Make sure you have your project setup. (see below)
• Register your handle
• Inform the instructor about your progress
• Students' Achievements: Section 450, Section 451

Lectures

• Week 1 (Jan 24): Introduction. (slides)
  • Modern software development:
    • Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell (by Henrik Kniberg) gives an overall view on how software development is a collaboration between developers and stakeholders (users) and how important communication is.
    • Business Model Canvas Explained is a nice clip that tells you what business thinks when developing a new product.
    • Development and Deployment at Facebook is a paper describe how things work at Facebook, i.e., how Facebook can develop new features at a rapid rate while having increasingly large number of engineers.

• Week 2 (Jan 31): Incremental & iterative development (slides)

• Week 3 (Feb 21):
  • Game design principles. slides
  • Coding convention. slides
  • Practice on task breakdown. slides

• Week 4 (Feb 28):
  • Project idea discussion.
  • Planning 1.
  • Clean code: Meaningful names.

Labs

• Preparations: Various practical skills (we will discuss these topic in class as well.)
  • Command-line shell: In the modern era of computing, we usually enjoy using nice GUI program to work with our files and folder. However, command-line interface still wins in many aspects. It can be much faster and more accurate. In many cases, e.g., in server maintenance and in many DevOps's activities, command-line interface is the only choice.
    • Various how-to:
      • Windows:
      • Linux:
  • Master your Editor/IDE:

• Version control system with Git
• Getting Started with JavaScript
  • Tutorial 1: Number guessing game
  • Tutorial 2: Event-driven programming
  • Tutorial 3: 21 Game
  • Tutorial 4: Hangman
• Cocos2d-x
  • Notes: If you want to work with cocos2d-x, you'll need to use firefox if you want to run your game from URL file://. If you want to use Chrome, follow these instructions. Don't forget to disable JavaScript cache.
  • Tutorial 100: Sprites
  • (optional) Tutorial 100.5: Gozilla Shoot Game
    • No tutorial text right now, but you can study it from the commit logs and changes from its Git repo at bitbucket.org.
  • Tutorial 101: Sprites 2 - Flappy Dot
  • Small Tutorial 102: Actions, spritesheets, sound effects
  • Tutorial 103: PacMan
  • Guide 200: Platform game without physics engine
• Project setup
  • Project repository setup
  • Trello board setup

Links

• JavaScript
  • Style guides: idiomatic.js, jQuery style guide, Crockford's code convention, Google JavaScript Style Guide