What Did I Learn About Software Engineering?

What did I learn about Software engineering?

I have learned a lot from this course throughout the semester. First thing, we tackled was the basics of Software engineering. We learned that basic make up of a computer is its hardware and its software, and we learned that Software Engineering is the study of how to create software and how it works.  Programs and such are considered to be a key term for these software parts and that many mobile devices have a bit of software used to make them functional.

The whole time we spent learning about software engineering and its key terms like Development Life Cycle, their Methodology, their Documentation and even project management. To touch a little bit more on project management we find out that this particular course with Professor Liu is not only focused on the theoretical side but also the application of the items we learned. This is an important note to take because we need it for our current senior project. And to go on even further we spent much of class working on the senior project. We had to apply what we learned and even go beyond that by speaking in front of the class and talking about how we feel about the project. We worked on the Gantt chart for a while to properly make one. I saw this as a test to see how well we can apply what we learned from another course: System Analysis and Design.

We were even visited by distinguished guests to learn how to apply software engineering in our future. They taught us that creating software requires a lot of steps and a lot of learning. There was no guest that didn’t do a lot of side learning. I learned that most likely I will follow their footsteps and learn majority of my work from the side and that the courses in Ming Chuan might not be enough. I really have to delve into a specific field in order to obtain what I want.

Well software engineering course by Dr. Liu is another great course that taught me a very important lesson and that is to never have too many expectations.  I thought I was going to just to a lot of programming or coding for this course, but I didn’t. Instead I learned a great deal about the future potential I have and the future of my senior project.