TA for COM S 309, focusing on major software engineering topics and preparing students to lead medium-sized software projects. Emphasized teamwork, accountability, project management, and professional ethics through a semester-long group project.

Key topics/goals:

• Software development lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation
• Project management: process models, planning, scheduling, risk management
• Software artifacts and documentation
• Configuration management & source control
• Testing, reviews, and quality assurance
• Legal and ethical principles in computing
• Information management, relational & object-oriented models
• Networking basics: DNS, IP, HTTP, client/server APIs