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Ask HN: Software Engineering for Professionals – talk ideas
Where I work, we're seeing more professionals (operations engineers, production engineers, accountants, geophysicists, scientists, ...) working on developing their own 'applications' for reporting, visualizations and data analytics.
I thought it'd be good idea to give a talk about software engineering to help them better understand the tools, architecture, trade-offs, ecosystems and such.
Any thoughts on what to include and how to make it more appealing to a wide audience?
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoSource code control. Code reviews before checkin. Tests. ("What is your objective evidence that it does what you need it to do?") Keeping track of bugs - a bug database, even if somewhat informal. Handling unexpected input. (For these people, "complain and die" may be a valid approach, but don't just continue and produce garbage output.) Discussing a variety of languages, and giving some guidance on when to use each, might be useful.