Coding Like You Mean It
S06
Joe Holt
What’s it like to write shipping software? In this course, you’ll experience the complexities of working on large programs and see Computer Science played out for real in thousands of lines of cutting-edge code. You’ll use as your textbook the source code for several large freeware and open-source projects. By dissecting, debugging, and rewriting them, you’ll experience fundamental algorithms and data structures in true context. In the process, you’ll get involved in the phenomenon of open-source software development, contributing bug fixes and taking part in forum discussions with colleagues around the world.