Exam 1 Topics

• Motivation for software engineering as a field
• Ways to measure “good” software
• The importance of maintainability
• Relational Databases
  • SQL
    • CREATE TABLE
    • INSERT INTO
    • SELECT
      • Aggregate functions
  • Organizing schemas
  • Primary keys
  • Foreign keys
• Object oriented programming
  • Inheritance
  • Abstract base classes
  • Subtype polymorphism
  • Composition
  • Strategy pattern
• Coupling