All pages will use the same starting point and a basic structure. This is what we’re going to start building. Now it won’t really be effective for anything but the most basic pages, but it gives it the necessary start that all HTML 5 pages need. First, we need to define what we call the…
The term team is used loosely around business. The book prefers the term jelled team. The idea of a team coming together and acting as one. If team members are working together, and strongly tied to one another, then they will increase their performance and productivity. The whole is greater than the sum of the…
Obviously mastering the technical aspects of software development are important. However, hopefully as you’ve seen from the class already, there is more to it than just “coding”. The book outlines 7 traits that they feel are necessary to be a good software engineer. Individual Responsibility Works to deliver on promises they make to their peers,…
Sometimes called (XP), it is one of the most used forms of agile programming. The XP Process Planning – also called the planning game, begins with listening, to build user stories of what the user expects to do (what output will be generated, features, and functionality). The user develops these stories and then assigns each…
Agile software tries to address a couple of key components. By continual adaptation we can hopefully better manage the unpredictability of the software building process. We do so by making adaptable changes. The 12 Agile Principles: Agile Like? Too often however, people do “agile like” development. Something that utilizes a part of agile, or they…
Agile development has been around for only about 20 years. While this seems like a lot of time, but given that we use either no method, or old fashioned methods for 60+ years, and some places still use (or don’t use) them, it makes Agile still relatively new and a lot of people afraid of…
An insertion sort is a bit of a special case. It assumes that you will be given a set of values over time, and as you get them, you will insert the value into its correct location based upon the given values. Depending upon the data, and size, you could utilize different types of sort,…
While similar in name to the Merge Sort, the Merge Sorted is a bit of a special case type of sort, and shares none of the same methodology. In it, you take two, or more sources, which are already sorted, and you merge them together. As you merge them together, you determine from which list,…
