Tweet from @MIT_CSAIL depicting Katie Bouman and Margaret Hamilton side by side. Article by Haley Demos on Bouman’s rise to internet fame.

This course presents techniques and tools in software design and development and applies them to the design and implementation of a large software system. The discussion includes the software development life cycle; analysis, design, implementation, testing and debugging; maintenance and documentation; software reliability, portability, and expandability; and user interface.

As a central part of the course, student teams devolop realistic products using concepts of agile software development. Each project includes all aspects of software development from a feasibility study to final delivery.