Software Engineering: Crash Course Computer Science #16
Today, we're going to talk about how HUGE programs with millions of lines of code like Microsoft Office are built. Programs like these are way too complicated for a single person, but instead...
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Hi, I’m Carrie Anne, and welcome to CrashCourse Computer Science! So we’ve talked a lot about sorting in this series and often code to sort a list of numbers might only be ten lines long, which is easy enough for a single programmer to write. Plus, it’s short enough that you don’t need any special tools – you could do it in Notepad. Really! But, a sorting algorithm isn’t a program; it’s likely only a small part of a much larger program. For example, Microsoft Office has roughly 40 millions lines of code. 40 MILLION! That’s way too big for any one person to figure out and write! To build huge programs like this, programmers use a set of tools and practices. Taken together, these form the discipline of Software Engineering – a term coine...
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Hi, I’m Carrie Anne, and welcome to CrashCourse Computer Science! So we’ve talked a lot about sorting in this series and often code to sort a list of numbers might only be ten lines long, which is easy enough for a single programmer to write. Plus, it’s short enough that you don’t need any special tools – you could do it in Notepad. Really! But, a sorting algorithm isn’t a program; it’s likely only a small part of a much larger program. For example, Microsoft Office has roughly 40 millions lines of code. 40 MILLION! That’s way too big for any one person to figure out and write! To build huge programs like this, programmers use a set of tools and practices. Taken together, these form the discipline of Software Engineering – a term coine...
