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CS 33901 Software Engineering

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Readings

• Software Engineering: The Current Practice, Vaclav Rajlich. online
• Head First Software Development, Dan Pilone and Russ Miles. online
• Visual Paradigm UML learning guide
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Martin Fowler. online
• Refactoring Guru with catalog and examples
• Refactoring.com catalog and examples

UML Tools:

• Lucidchart - www.lucidchart.com/ Free web app
• DrawIO - www.draw.io/ Free web app
• UMLet - www.umlet.com/ Free download
• Visual Paradigm - www.visual-paradigm.com/solution/freeumltool/ Free download version
• PlantText - www.planttext.com/ Free online texted based tool
• yUML - yuml.me Free online text based tool
• Microsoft Visio - Not free. Nice drawing tool from MS with UML support.

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