Software Engineering - Skills & Drills

Notes by Gregory Vinčić

Preface

Practice makes perfect

In software engineering there are many skills required to become professional. Here I present some of those skills and ways to practice them.

Start

• Golang getting started

Plan

Skill of presenting a problem domain with a scoped solution in mind.

Design

System design

Skill of communicating with fellow engineers on what makes up a system and why.

• Components diagram
• System design - layers and access roles

Software design

Skill of writing software to grow gracefully over time.

• Golang project layout
• Purpose of func main()
• Nexus pattern
• Graceful server shutdown
• Strict mode

Verify

• Inline test helpers
• Alternate design to simplify tests
• Setup and teardown

Deliver

• Embed version and revision

Drills

Drills are short examples for practicing often used concepts.

Command line

• Parse builtin types
• Short and long option names
• Parse options using cmdline.BasicParser

Reading files

• Open file for reading
• Slurp file
• Read file line by line

Logging

• Basic use of log printer fucs
• Simple level loggers

Encoding

• Encode struct to json

Methods

• Pointer receiver or not
• Go idiomic getters and setters

References

• Packages