Software engineering

Software engineering is a branch of engineering involving building software. Along with hardware engineering, these two make up computer engineering.

Nowadays many applications are data-intensive instead of compute-intensive.

Resources

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by Martin Kleppmann
• The Pitt CS Wiki, from students at the University of Pittsburgh
• Habits of Great Software Engineers, an essay by Vadim Kravcenko
• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education, from the folks at MIT’s CSAIL
• Glossary of computer science, at the English Wikipedia

Blogs and newsletters:

• The Developing Dev
• Engineering Leadership
• High-Growth Engineer

Key concepts

• System design
  • Agile
  • SOLID design principles
• Team programming
• Data (storage, manipulation)
  • Database
  • Data structure
• Algorithm
  • Time complexity
  • Space complexity
• Programming language (paradigms)
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Functional programming
• Tech stack
• Software tests
• Parallel computing
• Software optimisation

Sub-fields

• Machine learning
  • Data science
  • MLOps
• Application programming
  • Mobile computing
  • Full-stack development
    • Front-end development
    • Back-end development
  • Web development
• Network programming
  • Distributed system
  • Cloud computing
  • Edge computing
• Systems software
  • Database
  • Operating system
  • Driver
  • Distributed system
• Related fields
  • DevOps
  • Site reliability engineering (SRE)
  • Information technology (IT)
  • Computer engineering
    • Hardware engineering
  • Electrical engineering
  • Computer science
    • Theoretical computer science

Principles

• Correctness
• Portability
• Scalability
• Maintainability
• Accessibility
• Robustness
• Adaptability
• Performance

Tools

• Shell
  • Command line
• Integrated development environment
• Version control (Git)
  • Branch
• Compiler and interpreter
• Debugger
• Library
• API
• Framework
• Linter

Courses

• APS105 — Computer Fundamentals, an introduction to C
• ECE244 — Programming Fundamentals, an introduction to C++ and object-oriented design
• ECE297 — Software Design and Communication, an introduction to software design
• ECE344 — Operating Systems
• ECE345 — Algorithms and Data Structures
• ECE467 — Compilers and Interpreters
• ECE361 — Computer Networks I
• ECE419 — Distributed Systems

Development environment

choco install jetbrainstoolbox
choco install git
choco install gh
choco install neovim

See also

Some broadly related aspects of engineering:

• Engineering design
• Engineering communication
  • Documentation