Chapter 2. Basics of software engineering
Before talking any further about your specific project, let’s look at some basic software engineering issues. How should you organize your effort and your time? How do big programs get written?
In this chapter we lay out some of the basic software engineering principles and tools that you need to carry out the goal of the course, which is to produce a fairly large and complete computer game program based on an existing object-oriented framework.
Software Engineering and Computer Games focuses on showing you how to carry out one particular kind of software project. We are not going to give you a complete or advanced treatment of the whole field of software engineering here. Rather than attempting a broad-based ...
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