CST438 Week 8

List the 5 most important things that you learned in the course, and why you chose them.

Agile vs Waterfall – Learning about these software development processes provides important context to software development work, and will no doubt help in my future endeavors.

REST Web Services – The ability to create API-style endpoints is an important skill, especially in the realm of websites / web apps.

React Frontends – Similarly, I anticipate that the ability to create frontends using a highly versatile and powerful framework such as React will prove useful in the future. While we have explored other frameworks in the CS Online program, I find React to be the easiest to work with / develop for.

Software Requirements Specifications – SRS documents are a vital part of the Waterfall process, and having experience writing an, albeit brief, SRS document will prove valuable going forward.

Amazon Web Services – While our interaction with AWS was brief, I believe this is one of the most important topics covered by the class. With cloud computing becoming an industry standard, the ability to manage, and deploy applications to such a cloud computing platform is essential.

I enjoyed CST 438; onwards to the next slate of classes!