Topics

Software Engineering

• pair programming
• extreme programming
• agile programming
• SCRUM
• UML (Gliffy, yUML)
• refactoring
• unit testing (unittest, JUnit)
• acceptance testing
• source control (Git, GitHub)
• issue tracking (GitHub)
• wikis (GitHub)
• documentation (pydoc, Javadoc)
• technical reports

Database Design

• normalization
• create, drop, and insert
• select, project, and join

Web Development

• Google App Engine
• XML (BeautifulSoup, ElementTree)
• Google's data store
• Django templates

Programming in Python, Java, and Haskell

• assertions, exceptions
• built-in and user-defined types
• stack and heap
• garbage collection
• regular expressions
• classes
• static and non-static data and methods
• inheritance
• refinement and replacement overriding
• run-time polymorphism
• static and dynamic binding
• virtual function tables
• abstract methods, abstract classes, and interfaces
• multiple inheritance
• reflection
• built-in and user-defined containers
• iterators and iterator objects
• generators
• generic functions
• higher-order functions
• function objects, lambdas, and binders

Design Patterns

• singleton
• decorator
• factory method
• abstract factory
• builder
• prototype