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Introduction to Agile Software Development: Tools & Techniques (edX)

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Introduction to Agile Software Development: Tools & Techniques (edX)

Introduction to Agile Software Development: Tools & Techniques: Cloud Computing, Service-Oriented Architecture, Ruby on Rails.

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Part One of the Professional Certificate Program in Agile Software Development. This course presents ideas and techniques for designing, developing, and modifying large software systems using Agile techniques and the same best-of-breed tools used by professionals, including GitHub, Pivotal Tracker, Travis CI, Heroku, and more.
This course is part of the Mastering Agile Development of Software as a Service Professional Certificate.

What you'll learn

  • Introduction to SaaS, Agile, and Cloud Computing
  • Ruby on Rails
  • SaaS Architecture

Prerequisites
Programming proficiency in at least one imperative object-oriented language (Python, Java, etc.), familiarity with both the theoretical underpinnings and implementation of basic data structures (lists, hashes, queues, etc.), understanding of the basics of functional programming and higher-order functions.
We will teach the basics of Ruby at a very accelerated pace that assumes thorough familiarity with OOP inheritance, static/class vs. instance methods and attributes, recursion, hash tables/hash maps, list comprehensions, higher-order functions, lambda expressions.
This course is NOT a good first course in programming. Basic Unix command-line skills are helpful; we will provide a cheat sheet.

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