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Software Development Methodologies

Last edited: August 8, 2025

The software development models, or Software Development Life-cycles (SDLCs), are methodologies to approach organizing a software project.

Waterfall

The waterfall specification gets written before any code written. We hand off spec and code directly to tester, and code should behave like spec.

  • Code specification exactly
  • Spec does not update

Code happens only after stuff is done

Agile

Agile are designed to work with minimum specification before code. Spec is updated constantly as code changes and get user feedback.

Software Engineering Index

Last edited: August 8, 2025

process of Engineering: chronological order

Other topics

  • Query optimization (TODO)

Fucking acronyms to know

fundamental trade-off of Software Engineering

The MIT vs. New Jersey problem: in Software Engineering, you can only choose one of FAST or ROBUST.

Solving PDEs via Fourier Transform

Last edited: August 8, 2025

This will have no explicit boundary conditions in \(x\)!

Assume \(|U(t,x)|\) decays quickly as \(|x| \to \infty\).

Apply Fourier Transform

Step one is to apply the Fourier Transform on our PDE

\begin{equation} \hat{U}(t, \lambda) = \int_{R} U(t,x) e^{-i\lambda x} \dd{x} \end{equation}

Leveraging the fact that Derivative of Fourier Transform is a multiplication, we can simply our Fourier transform in terms of one expression in \(x\).

Apply a Fourier Transform on \(f(x)\)

This allows you to plug the initial conditions into your transformed expression above.

solving systems

Last edited: August 8, 2025

So let’s say given a system:

\begin{equation} \begin{cases} x + 2y + z = 0 \\ 2x + 0y - z = 1 \\ x - y + 0z = 2 \end{cases} \end{equation}

We can represent this using a matricies.

\begin{equation} \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 2 & 1 \\ 2 & 0 & -1 \\ 1 & -1 & 0 \end{pmatrix} \begin{pmatrix} x \\ y \\ z \end{pmatrix} = \begin{pmatrix} 0 \\ 1 \\ 2 \end{pmatrix} \end{equation}

Songs that need Lyrics

Last edited: August 8, 2025
  • “laws.als”: “drumuomup”
  • “ping.als”: “walking down the street, eating children”""
  • “planets.als”: “sing a song among the starlight”
  • “songs.als”: “thank you klint for your discussion”

Other things I have to finish

  • “Tunel2.als”