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Posted by Mario Blokland
Mario Blokland
19,750 Points

Will there be a course for project planning in Software Development?

Ryan Carson, will there be a course which tells us how to plan a software project before developing it? For example how to make class diagrams and how to decide which classes are needed (how to best encapsulate), which access modifiers we should use (i.e. for PHP, Java) and so on.

Otherwise I will just buy a book for that :-)

Or are there other practices?

Thanks in advance.

  • Mario

2 Answers

Michael Choi
Michael Choi
6,332 Points
Michael Choi
Michael Choi
6,332 Points

Hey Mario, Here's great read for what you are looking for thoughtbot's playbook

Mario Blokland
Mario Blokland
19,750 Points

Thanks Michael, I am going to take a look at it :-)

Ryan Carson
Ryan Carson
23,287 Points
Ryan Carson
Ryan Carson
23,287 Points

Hey Mario

Our aim is to cover this during our Courses. Copying in some of our Teachers to comment: Craig Dennis, Andrew Chalkley, Kenneth Love, Hampton Paulk

Mario Blokland
Mario Blokland
19,750 Points

Thank you for your response Ryan. Sounds great that the aim is to cover those things. Looking forward to see what the Teachers will comment about that.

P.S. Treehouse is a great ressource. I love it :D

Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

I walk through the planning of most, if not all, of the projects that we build in my courses. Granted, our planning is more "thinking out loud and making some comments as notes" but that's mostly because we haven't built anything sufficiently large enough to need diagrams.

Granted, that feels like overkill for most Python work :D

Mario Blokland
Mario Blokland
19,750 Points

Thanks for your response Kenneth :-)