DECO syllabus - Supercollaborative/Supercollaborative.github.io GitHub Wiki

Week 1

• Course introduction
  • intro to studio and the course itself
  • cheesy project video
• Version control
  • discrete changes, logs, diffs and merges
  • simple git demo
  • distributed version control
  • changing history
  • history of VC

Week 2

• Git workflows
• Build systems
• Tests and TDD
  • small gradle test demo. here's one we recorded earlier
  • small TDD demo
• Collaboration on code & CI
  • demo of jenkins

Week 3

• Ekka holiday, no lecture
• Video on keeping images out of main repo (for size reasons) and pulling them in from Artifactory

Still to come (dates fluid, topic list also fluid):

• Actor systems (simple concurrency because the server this year is very concurrent)
• Continuous deployment
• Stories from industry
• UX / design
• Database integration and patterns
  • JDBC
  • ORM / JPA
• Mocks and code coverage
• Class diagrams
• Patterns (structural)
• Sequence diagrams
• Patterns (behavioural)
• Metrics
  • Sonar
• Logging

Late in the course:

• User testing
  • (optional because it's hard for us to practice -- students are their own customer until DECO3800)
• Memory & GC (optional)
  • demo using VisualGC
• Bytecode, optimisation (optional)
  • demo
• interoperability/standards (optional)
• profiling
  • demo using VisualVM
• FP/ non-Java (optional)
• MDE (optional)