WEP Presentationfor non-IT

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1. Steps and roles in software development2. Skills developed in 1st year3. What can do a student in 1st internship4. Skills developed in 2nd year5. What can do a student in 2nd internship6. Difficulties the students meet7. What they usually like the most8. Comparison with previous batches

Agenda

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Development

Software Development

Customer: express his needs

Analyst: specify functional requirement

Architect: design a technical solution

Developer 1: Develop part 1 of the solution

Developer: integrate

Tester: test functionalities / usability

Customer: acceptance

tests

Developer n: Develop part n of the solution

Developer 1: Test part 1 of the solution

Developer n: Test part n of the solution

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• Learn basis of programming and algorithms– C Language

• Learn how to do a basic web page– HTML / CSS– Design with Photoshop and Flash

• Learn what is DataBase and how to use• Learn the different steps of a development project

– Basic of analysis– Functional tests

• Develop students’ autonomy: Self-learning– Critical quality for a developer

First Year

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• Learn basis of programming and algorithmsC Language– Can do:

Can do small and medium application with C language Understand clearly with algorithms to deal with problem

– Difficulties: Don’t understand with C language The first programing language to learn.

First Year

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• Learn how to do a basic web page– HTML / CSS– Design with Photoshop and Flash– HTML :

Create static website/ web template Edit template (UI) for customer Create with standard HTML code Example: http://soungeng.zzl.org/

– Photoshop and FlashCan do with Photoshop Designing template, banner, label, logo, leaflet , broacher,…Can do with Flash Flash banner, logo animation, welcome page animation,

advertising block in web,...

First Year

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• Learn what is DataBase and how to use

• What is a DataBase ?– Used to store data from applications– Example: A forum

When a user post a message, we need to store it Need to retrieve the messages to display to the users The application needs also to store users’ information (login,

password, nickname, photo…)

– Advantages Storing and retrieving data may be complex, so it is difficult

to do it by ourselves A DataBase do it with good performance A DataBase can be accessed by multiple users

First Year

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• What a student can do with Database ? Analysis database with ER modeling Create small and medium database system Can covert from physical to logical database, and logical to

physical database. Create application with VBA language.

First Year

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• Learn the different steps of a development project– Basic of analysis– Functional tests

They will be a tester or user that use the black box system to find the bug or error.

Report bug error to developer or manager. Use the document testing to test by follow stops

First Year

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• Develop students’ autonomy: Self-learning– Critical quality for a developer

Technology is evolving quickly When we develop a web site or an application, we do not do

everything, instead we use things developed by other people A developer must be able to quickly learn how to use it With Internet many things are shared, and the things a company is using

change often from one company to another A developer does not need to know all technologies (there

are so many..), but he must be able to learn a new one easily

First Year

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• Learn basis of programming and algorithms– C Language

• Learn how to do a basic web page– HTML / CSS– Design with Photoshop and Flash

• Learn what is DataBase and how to use• Learn the different steps of a development project

– Basic of analysis– Functional tests

• Develop students’ autonomy: Self-learning– Critical quality for a developer

First Year

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• What a student can do during his 1rst internship ?

Apps with access (VBA) Small apps with C programming Tester & bugging report Design template Web page with animation problem solving Prototype graphic diagram Database analysis

First Year

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• Continue do develop student’s autonomy

• Learn about tools we use to work in team

• Learn Object-Oriented programming with Java

• Learn several technologies to build web sites or web applications

• Virtual Company

Second Year

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• Learn about tools we use to work in team

– Eclipse and Visual Studio Programming application

– Bug Tracking System Used to follow issues between customer/tester/developer Similar to HelpDesk

– SVN: Version Control System Used when several developers are working on the same files

Second Year

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• Learn Object-Oriented programming with Java

– Explaining what is OOP is out of scope of this presentation– Why Java ?

Widely used to develop desktop applications, but can also be used for web development

Easy language to learn OOP

– Why to learn OOP ? Almost all the recent languages are OOP

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• Learn several technologies to build web sites or web applications

• A web application is usually composed of 3 elements:

Second Year

Client(like FireFox)

Server DataBase

Store and retrieve dataAsk for web pages

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• Client: Language HTML– All web pages are using HTML– Basic scenario:

You go to a web site FireFox asks the server for the HTML file of the web site FireFox displays the page You click on a link FireFox asks the server for the HTML file corresponding to

the link …

Second Year

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• Client: Language JavaScript– In previous scenario, each time the user does

an action, the browser asks the server for a new page

– New scenario: you are on cistrain.org and you put the mouse on a menu, the menu is displayed

In this case, if the browser asks a newpage it will be very slow and not nicefor the user

For this we need to modify the web page directly in the browser, withoutinteraction with the server

This is done with JavaScript JavaScript program can be embedded in HTML page

Second Year

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• Client: Language JavaScript– Because we don’t want to do the same things

all the time, we use frameworks containingprograms to do common things

Display a menu Display a popup window …

– Our students learn the framework JQuery Widely used

Second Year

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• Server– In previous scenario, the server only stores

HTML files, and send them to the client on demand It means the web page is always the same

– Very often, the content of a web page depends on several parameters:

The access rights of a user In a forum, a user which is not logged can see the messages, but not

post a new message Data

In a forum home page, the content of the page contains all the discussions, so each time a new discussion is started the content of the page changed

– This is why we need, on the server side, to build web pages depending on the different parameters

Second Year

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• Server– It means, on the server, we do not have web pages

directly stored, but for each page we have a smallprogram capable to create the web page

– Those programs can access to a DataBase to retrieve data and use them in the web page

– Different languages PHP: free, widely used because simple, efficient and do not

need to install a lot of things to work ASP.NET: licensed, more complex, more adapted for large

applications, better performance JSP: works with Java language, usually used when the server

works with Java applications

Second Year

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• Server: what can do our students ?– Develop web sites or web applications with PHP

and MySQL DataBase

They can develop dynamic website/web apps connect with MySQL database, for several kind of website such as personal web, form web entertainment web, web apps, etc..

Ex: http://icommunity.t15.org create by Mr. Ekk sangha

Second Year

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• Server: what can do our students ?– Develop web applications with ASP.NET and C#

Dynamic website or desktop apps that use asp.net with C# connection with database Ms SQL server.

Second Year

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• Server: what can do our students ?– Develop web sites with CMS– What is CMS ?

Content Management System Students know Joomla and WordPress

Widely used, they are using PHP language

Ex: –Student develop website in high level like create component, module, template– Deployment and configuration

Second Year

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• Virtual Company– Group exercise: very important to work in team

Use tools Experiment repartition of tasks Evaluation of the time needed to do a task

– With virtual customer Experiment relation with customer

How to explain technical choices How to explain what is possible/not possible with allocated time How to make the customer happy

– Learn by doing mistakes The goal of this exercise is not that everything is going well We want students make mistakes

– Presentation at the end of the project

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• What a student can do during 2nd internship ?– Create web dynamic and standard UI (PHP, C#.Net, …)– CMS development (Joomla, Wordpress, Typo3…)– Tool for development in term (SVN…)– Self learning skill– Software development lifecycle– Web/Apps designing UI– Web animation– Desktop Apps, Mobile apps

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• Difficulties:– Communication– Learning New technology– Problem solving– Networking skill– No job to do

Difficulties the students meet

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What they usually like the most

• What they like:– Web apps than desktop apps– Web developer with CMS– Developer and tester

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• Comparison with previous batches we found that it need far different to each other. For the new generation not so many problem with new technology when they go to company.

Comparison with previous batches