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Introduction:
Hello, my name is Jon Squire and I have been using computers
to solve many problems since 1959. I have about 1 million
lines of source code, written over the past 50 years.
How can that be? Check the numerical computation:
1,000,000/50 years is 20,000 lines per year.
20,000/200 working days per year is 100 lines per working day.
With a lot of reuse, cut-and-paste, same programs and
data files including scripts for many languages on many
operating systems, easy.
On a job, 20,000/(50 weeks*5 days per week) is 80 lines per day.
80/8 hours is 10 lines per hour. You can do that.
You may not save every line you type. sad.
For 25 years I was Software Engineering Manager for the
Westinghouse Defense and Space Center, now Northrop Grumman.
I was promoted to three levels of management and was still
able to develop some of my own software while managing
my Budget Center EH3.
Now you know something about me, please fill out the
survey so I know something about your background.
Please turn in survey as you leave.
Overview:
Things you might not know
This section will use a software development "Waterfall Model"
Later we cover what another section is using, the "Spiral Model"
Homework 1 is assigned
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