🧠 core topics covered

• software development lifecycle (SDLC): compared Waterfall, Agile, and DevOps models and their impact on planning, development, releases, and operations.
• team collaboration & stakeholder communication: requirements gathering, change management, and working across cross-functional teams throughout the lifecycle.
• system design & architecture: modular design, service/component decomposition, interface-based development; studied styles such as MVC and client-server plus common enterprise patterns.
• code understanding & maintenance: control-flow/data-flow analysis, code comprehension, debugging, and refactoring strategies for long-lived codebases.
• software requirements & testing: capturing/managing requirements; applied unit and integration testing to improve reliability and maintainability.
• devOps & process improvement: CI/CD pipelines, continuous testing, and iterative process optimization for team projects.
• special topics: intro to cloud computing and IoT, and how they influence architecture and delivery.

🧪 tools & technologies used

• javascript & angularJS: in-class exercises and assignments for component-based web development.
• version control & collaboration: Git/GitHub for branching, code reviews, and issue tracking.
• devops tooling (concepts): CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment workflows.

This course strengthened my ability to approach projects with a structured engineering mindset—designing, testing, and improving systems both individually and within a team.