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CMSC 128 - Introduction to Software Engineering > History of Software Engineering > Flashcards

History of Software Engineering Flashcards

1
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coined the term software in 1958

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John Tukey

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Established the theoretical concept of a computer

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Alan turing

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Introduced the concept of algorithm

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Muhammed al-khawarezmi

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First computer programmer who programmed an algorithm which became concrete

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Ada lovelace

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5
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Coined the term OOP

Contribution on windows GUI

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Alan Kay

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contribution on the formalization of software fault tolerance

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Ali mili

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Introduced the Spiral method

Contributed to an area of software engineering economics and software metrics

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Barry boehm

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Unix OS and Java

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Bill joy

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9
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Unix Programming and C

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Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan

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Concepts of assertion and program proof of correctness

Sequential processes, a formal language for specs of concurrent processes

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CAR Hoare

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Encapsulation, interface and modularity

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David Parnas

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12
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Use of mathematical techniques for formal analysis of the complexity of algorithms

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Donald knuth

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Introduced structured programming

In depth studies on concurrency and sync problems needed in complex distributed systems

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Edsger Dijkstra

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Introduced object oriented designed patterns

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Erich gamma, richard helm, ralph johnson, john vlissides

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15
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OS/360

Mythical man month

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Fred brooks

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16
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Stack for expression evaluation
Algol
Coined software engineering

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Friedrich bauer

17
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First compiler

Cobol

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Grace hopper

18
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Object oriented analysis

UML

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Grady booch

19
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Fortran

Backus naur form

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John backus

20
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Software inspection

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Michael Fagan

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Pascal programming

Idea of decomposition and stepwise refinement

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Niklaus wirth

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Simula, the first programming language

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Ole-johan dahl & kristen nygaard

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Algol

Formal syntax description language

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Peter naur

24
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Structured analysis and design approach for designing software systems

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Tom Demarco & Edward Yourdon

25
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Capability maturity model

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Watts humphrey

26
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Waterfall model

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Winston Royce

CMSC 128 - Introduction to Software Engineering (11 decks)

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