Computer Science / Unit 9 CS 0471 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Software Engineering
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The idea
Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software — engineering applied to software, which does not mean bureaucracy.
In practice
A weather app maintained for a decade without decay is the discipline's quiet evidence.
Where people slip
Systematic and document-laden are different properties.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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