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In Project 1, students design and build a player for abc music notation, which is capable of synthesizing a multi-voiced Bach fugue like this. (Adapted from an image by Matt.kaner on Wikipedia.)
Prof. Robert Miller
6.005
Fall 2011
Undergraduate
This course introduces fundamental principles and techniques of software development. Students learn how to write software that is safe from bugs, easy to understand, and ready for change.
Topics include specifications and invariants; testing, test-case generation, and coverage; state machines; abstract data types and representation independence; design patterns for object-oriented programming; concurrent programming, including message passing and shared concurrency, and defending against races and deadlock; and functional programming with immutable data and higher-order functions.
The course includes weekly programming exercises and two substantial group projects.
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