01219245-57

This is a course homepage for 01219245/01219246 Individual Software Process and Individual Software Process Lab for 2nd semester, academic year 2557.

Announcements

• 1/14: In the lab today, we will practice source code version control, using Git. See the material. If you are fast, you can proceed to practice on JavaScript. See JavaScript tutorial 1.

Lectures

• Week 1 (Jan 16): 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.

• Week 2 (Jan 23): Incremental & iterative development (slides)
  • Practice on task breakdown. (slides)
  • Coding convention. (slides)

• Week 3 (Feb 13):
  • Game design principles. (slides)
    • Game design slides by Andrea Resmini: lecture1, lecture2, lecture3, lecture4
  • Planning 1. (slides)
  • Clean code: Meaningful names. (slides)

• Week 4 (Feb 20):
  • TDD
  • Template for TDD practice: 219245-practice.zip

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
  • After you finish each tutorial, you should try to work on its quiz to make sure that you grasp core concepts of each tutorial.
  • Tutorial 1: Number guessing game
    • Self quiz after finishing the tutorial: self-quiz-tut1.pdf
  • Tutorial 2: Event-driven programming
    • Self quiz: self-quiz-tut2.pdf
  • Tutorial 3: 21 Game
  • Tutorial 4: Hangman

• Cococs2d-JS
  • We will use Cocos2d-JS as a game development framework.
  • Installation
  • Tutorial 100 - sprites
  • Tutorial 101: Sprites 2 - Flappy Dot
    • Small Tutorial 102: Actions, spritesheets, sound effects
  • Tutorial 103: PacMan

Video clips

• Git
  • Part 1 - covers the following commands: init, status, add, commit, diff, log
  • Part 2 - covers how to ignore files
  • Part 3 - covers basic branching mode and how to move the HEAD around the commit graphs
• JavaScript: basic
  • Part 1 - introduction, variables, control flows.
  • Part 2 - functions, I/O with alert() and prompt()
  • Part 3 - how to generate random numbers

Links

• Course home page from last year
• JavaScript
  • Style guides: idiomatic.js, jQuery style guide, Crockford's code convention, Google JavaScript Style Guide