CS257 Software Design
Wednesday, 23 April 2025

+ Questions

+ API design assignment
- Where we're headed
- Design principles recap

+ Lab: Using stearns for Flask

+ The next few weeks
- API design
- Database design (first, learn about databases)
- Database implementation
    - create tables
    - put your dataset into the tables
- API implementation [due the W after midterm]

- API unit tests

- Learn some HTML, CSS
- Learn some Javascript
- Implement your front end (i.e., the website from
    a user's perspective)
- User testing
- Refactoring, improving of your front end

Along the way
- More readings/discussions about code quality
- Some readings/discussions about software design ethics


+ General advice
- Read, play with, modify, etc. my sample code
- Look at all assignments early
- Ask questions


+ Databases