December 1, 2025

• Complete Duke's Course Evaluation — every voice matters!
• Current Readings
  • No Silver Bullet, by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
  • Do Programmers Need a Code of Conduct interview with Robert Martin and his talk The Future of Programming
  • Engineering for Equity from Software Engineering at Google by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright
  • The API-First World, a comic book from Postman
  • Defending Democracy (and US!) from Big Tech, 3 podcast episodes by Bob Sullivan with Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy and the Keenan Institute for Ethics
• Current Work
  • Complete your Final Project and practice your Presentation, due in class Thursday, December 4
  • Complete your Essays by Monday, December 8
  • Complete your User Test by Monday, December 8

November 17, 2025

• Current Readings
  • Guide to App Architecture from Google Android Developer Documentation
  • Clean Architecture 101: Building Software That Lasts from ByteByteGo
  • About Leaky Abstractions by Mathieu Ropert
  • MVC, MVP, MVI, MVVM and VIPER Architecture Patterns by Pınar Koçak
  • Software Architecture Guide by Martin Fowler

November 11, 2025

• Current Readings
  • Mapreduce by J. Dean and S. Ghemawat
  • Objects Should Be Immutable, Immutable Objects Are Not Dumb, and How an Immutable Object Can Have State and Behavior? by Yegor Bugayenko
  • Design Principles and Patterns for Highly Concurrent Applications by Kumar Chandrakant

November 6, 2025

• Current Readings
  • Basics of Unix Philosophy, What Should Be Configurable? from The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Raymond
  • How to Work Well on Teams from Software Engineering at Google by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright
  • Towards Ethics by Default, One Step at a Time by Vitaly Friedman
    

October 28, 2025

• Current Readings
  • WebAssembly Concepts from Mozilla Developer Network
  • WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers! by Asen Alexandrov
  • WASM: Yes, but for What? by Andy Wingo
  • WASM Beyond the Browser from KodeKloud

October 21, 2025

• Current Readings
  • Concise Guide for Evaluating Open Source Software from the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)
  • Best Practices for Contributing to Open Source Projects by Toma Puljak
  • The New Struggles Facing Open Source by Matt Asay

October 14, 2025

• Current Readings
  • What is Free Software? from the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
  • Pick a License, Any LIcense by Jeff Atwood

October 4, 2025

• The course Gitlab server will be down for maintenance during Fall Break on Monday, October 13 from 8am-5pm
• Duke's LLM services will be down for maintenance during Fall Break on Tuesday, October 14, from 8-9am
• Current Readings
  • Crafting Effective Agents from CrewAI
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP): A Guide With Demo Project by Aashi Dutt
  • Kubernetes Tutorial for Beginners: Basic Concepts by James Walker

September 29, 2025

• Current Readings
  • Software Security by Gary McGraw
  • Top 10 Secure Coding Practices by Robert Seacord
  • Secure Coding Practices Comprehensive Checklist from OWASP
  • AppSec for Builders: A Manifesto for the Future of Secure Code Development by Jaweed Metz
• Current Work
  • AI Agent App, Phase 2, due by the end of the day Tuesday, October 9

September 22, 2025

• Current Readings
  • Building Effective Agents from Anthropic
  • AI Agent Platform: Best Practices from Talkdesk
  • Five Levels of Agentic Automation by Antti Karjalainen
• Current Work
  • AI Agent App, Phase 1, due by the end of the day Tuesday, October 2

September 15, 2025

• Current Readings
  • Linux Logging Basics from Loggly
  • Logging Wisdom: How to Log by Emil Stenqvist
  • Java Logging Best Practices by Rafal Kuć

September 9, 2025

• Current Readings
  • Containers vs. Virtual Machines by Ian Buchanan
  • What is Docker? from GeeksForGeeks
  • Understanding Docker: A Beginner’s Guide for Junior DevOps Engineers by Andrey Byhalenko
  • Docker for Web Developers by Todd Weiss
• Current Work
  • GIT and Server Setup for Basic Web App, Phase 2, due by the end of the day Tuesday, September 16

September 2, 2025

• Current Readings
  • Branching Strategies in Git from GeeksForGeeks
  • Maven Tutorial from GeeksForGeeks
  • Automated Testing for CI/CD by TeamCity
• Current Work
  • GIT and Server Setup for Basic Web App, Phase 1, due by the end of the day Tuesday, September 9

August 26, 2025

• Welcome to CompSci 390!
  • This website is your primary portal to the course: you are responsible for all material that appears here and should check for updates frequently
  • Please help me make this course as useful as possible for you by letting me know as soon as possible if you need help or if something is not working for you
• You are encouraged to take Duke's Roots Courses, since you have many opportunities to learn a new language, framework, or technology this semester
• Current Readings
  • Basics of Unix Philosophy from The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Raymond
  • Mental Health in Software Engineering by Vadim Kravcenko
  • Coding and Coping with ChatGPT by Kevin Workman at Happy Coding
• Current Work
  • Please try to complete this survey before our first class meeting on Tuesday, August 26
  • Download and install Warp Terminal and Rancher Desktop
  • Optionally, download and install Cursor AI Editor and Tower GIT Client (free for students)