Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: PRODUCTION PROGRAMMING

Department: Computer Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): COMP 202 OR COMP 212

Description: This course focuses on the principles and practices of test- driven software development, which have been popularized under the banner of "Extreme Programming". To provide students with practical experience, the course engages students in the development of open source production programs written in JAVA or C#. The DRJAVA programming environment used in our core programming courses was developed by students in this course. Some of the major topics covered in course lectures include design patterns for controlling concurrency and refactoring transformations to improve legacy code.