Software Engineering 101 - Cleveland

This is a one-day, FREE event designed to improve your software development skills.  Rather than focusing on introductions to new technologies or tools, this conference will help you get better at your craft.  The morning sessions will focus on fundamental principles, patterns, and practices of software development, and the afternoon will be spent on practical exercises that put these fundamentals into action.  While the sessions will mostly make use of .NET and Visual Studio, these topics apply to any language or platform.

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Agenda - Friday, 7 October 2011

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome (Announce Prizes/Sponsors)

8:45 - 9:15 Tasty Nuggets for Daily Development - Nuget and Mercurial (Presented by Kevin Kuebler)

9:20 - 10:20 Test the Rainbow - Introducing Different Types of Testing (Presented by Todd Ropog)

10:20-10:30 Break and Snack

10:30-12:30 Hands on Exercises

12:30-13:30 Lunch (on your own)

13:30-14:30 SOLIDifying Existing Code - SOLID + Refactoring (Presented by Steve Smith)

14:35-15:15 If You Keep Mocking Me, I May Get Testy - Advanced Testing Including Mocks (Presented by Brendan Enrick)

15:25-16:45 Hands on Exercises

16:45-1700 Conclusion/Evaluations/Prizes

We will have some prizes to raffle off at the end of the day as well.

If possible, bring your own laptop for use in the afternoon’s session, with your choice of development and testing tools installed. We will have prepared material for Visual Studio 2008/2010 and C#, but other environments are welcome. If you cannot bring a laptop, don’t worry – we’ll be spending the hands-on activities pairing together so as long as half the attendees have laptops, it will be fine.

This event is being modelled after our successful Software Engineering 101 event last year, and is being organized by NimblePros and HudsonSC and the location is being provided by Microsoft.

Prize Sponsors:
NimblePros