Software Engineering isn’t an “Advanced form of Programming”. Rather it is the idea and processes of how to properly design, develop, and deliver a software product.

Without proper guidelines and processes, software project can be delivered late, without all the features, over cost, or a combination of those options.

Software is found everywhere in our world, from our mobile phones, dynamic websites, smart devices, our cars, and yes – even on a computer too.

A concerted effort should be made to understand the problem before a software solution is developed.

High Quality Software

Software should be of high quality. – What does that mean?

Maintainable Software

Software should be maintainable. – What does that mean?

Buggy Software

Why is there still bugs in software today?

Introduction to Software Engineering was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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