4.00 Credits
This course will explore the differences between code that works and good code. This will include: designing during development, characteristics of interfaces, naming conventions, defensive programming, selecting data types, organizing code, controlling loops, unusual control structures, table driven methods. Students will explore open source projects to practice evaluating the quality of code. If prerequisite courses are not met departmental approval is required.
Prerequisite:
(CMSC 110 (Grade of C or Higher), SWEN 100 (Grade of C or Higher), or SWEN 101 (Grade of C or Higher)) and (CMSC 111 (Grade of C or Higher) or ENGR 120 (Grade of C or Higher))