This free introductory course, An introduction to software development, discusses the engineering nature of software development, its challenges and some fundamental practices which have developed to meet them.

Learning outcomes:

• Appreciate the engineering nature of software development.
• Describe key activities in software development and the role of modelling.
• Explain key concepts in software development, such as risk and quality.
• Explain the basics of an object-oriented approach to software development.
• Describe a simple workflow for interacting with the published literature on software development.