CS410P/CS510: The Joy of Coding with Java and Android

In The Joy of Coding with Java and Android, we'll learn about (and apply!) tools and techniques used by Software Developers all over the world every day to quickly deliver high-quality software that is robust enough to meet today's needs and flexible enough to evolve to meet tomorrow's needs. You'll learn about contemporary software development while exploring topics like managing source code with version control, leveraging unit tests to continuously demonstrate code quality, refactoring code to improve it, building a small device application with Android, and writing software individually, in pairs, and with a small group. And, along the way, we'll have some fun learning and solving problems together.

The (very much optional) textbook for the course is The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt. While this book is relevant to many of the topics that are discussed in class, I do not "follow the book" per se.

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