CS347 Advanced Software Design
Monday, 31 March 2025

https://cs.carleton.edu/faculty/jondich/courses/cs347_s25/

+ Hi
- Jeff Ondich; call me Jeff; Olin 301A
- Office Hours info linked on the top of the course web page
- Talk to me: in person, Slack #general, Slack DM, email

+ Goals
- Increase your independence as a developer
- Think about understanding vs. instruction-following
    (and why you want understanding)
- Practice building something non-trivial
- Design and implement for an audience, reasoning ethically about context & consequences of what you build
- Put professional tools and processes to use
- Explore the question of how a developer should be thinking about and using LLMs.

+ Other notes
- This is a 300-level class
- YOU SHOULD ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS! Do not be shy about this.
- Probably want to bring your laptop to class.

+ Phases
- Phase 1 [~2 weeks]: project plan + core tools exploration (notably, Unix basics, git, and docker)
- Phase 2 [~5 weeks]: project development + more tools for development infrastructure
    (e.g., continuous integration, automated testing, etc.)
- Phase 3 [~2 weeks]: project refinement; future/professionalism/...

+ Start-up questions
- What would you like to learn this term?
    C++
    Rust
    An app that runs natively
    Mobile app
    Memory: Ruben & Lazuli have some weird idea
    Docker: WTF
    Web frameworks: React, React Native, Vue, Ruby on Rails, Angular,...
    Firmware
    Networking stuff

- What would you like to have a chance to practice?
- Start brainstorming software you might like to make
    - needs your communities have
    - software you'd like for your own use
    - existing software you would like to mimic
    - whatever
    - at this stage, don't filter; just write everything down

+ Lab: git

+ Assignments
- submit the git lab
- submit a list of answers to the first two questions above
- do the partner survey
- [get your setup: Unix command line, docker installed, GitHub account + personal access token]