Prerequisites ENGEC 327 or ENGEC 602: - Scaling software to many developers, modules, or machines requires a fundamentally different skill-set than writing short prototype code. Large groups of software engineers developing web or mobile applications, financial or healthcare systems, and even multiplayer games must synthesize a wide variety of elements at all layers of the software stack. This course addresses fundamental skills and experience needed for such software development within a modern multi-developer software development infrastructure. Through a variety of intensive programming projects in various languages and group sizes, students will learn about four core elements of software development at scale: design (writing future-oriented code for modularity, extensibility, interoperability), distribution (managing code across multiple processors), optimization (understanding the long-term effects of design and distribution on performance), and security (how all the previous elements influence the security and privacy of the overall system).

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