Overview
- Presents software design as an important step in developing software, regardless of the software development process used
- Emphasizes model-view-controller (MVC) as an underlying architectural principle
- Provides numerous classroom-tested discussion questions, hands-on exercises, and illuminating case studies to help students to improve their practical programming skills
Part of the book series: Texts in Computer Science (TCS)
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Program Design Fundamentals
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Software Design Perspectives
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About this book
This classroom-tested textbook presents an active-learning approach to the foundational concepts of software design. These concepts are then applied to a case study, and reinforced through practice exercises, with the option to follow either a structured design or object-oriented design paradigm. The text applies an incremental and iterative software development approach, emphasizing the use of design characteristics and modeling techniques as a way to represent higher levels of design abstraction, and promoting the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture.
Topics and features: provides a case study to illustrate the various concepts discussed throughout the book, offering an in-depth look at the pros and cons of different software designs; includes discussion questions and hands-on exercises that extend the case study and apply the concepts to other problem domains; presents a review of program design fundamentals to reinforce understanding of the basic concepts; focuses on a bottom-up approach to describing software design concepts; introduces the characteristics of a good software design, emphasizing the model-view-controller as an underlying architectural principle; describes software design from both object-oriented and structured perspectives; examines additional topics on human-computer interaction design, quality assurance, secure design, design patterns, and persistent data storage design; discusses design concepts that may be applied to many types of software development projects; suggests a template for a software design document, and offers ideas for further learning.Students of computer science and software engineering will find this textbook to be indispensable for advanced undergraduate courses on programming and software design. Prior background knowledge and experience of programming is required, but familiarity in software design is not assumed.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. David P. Voorhees is Director of Computer Science, Cybersecurity, and Software Applications & Systems Development, and McDevitt Associate Chair of Computer Science in the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Guide to Efficient Software Design
Book Subtitle: An MVC Approach to Concepts, Structures, and Models
Authors: David P. Voorhees
Series Title: Texts in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28501-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28500-5Published: 02 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28503-6Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28501-2Published: 01 January 2020
Series ISSN: 1868-0941
Series E-ISSN: 1868-095X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 519
Number of Illustrations: 194 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour