Extra Credit Opportunity

Objective: Learn from experts who aren't Professor Sprenkle

Due: Before December 2

ACM Tech Talks

ACM is one of the primary professional societies for computer scientists, and their tech talks are talks by experts in their fields. I often attend these talks and bring knowledge from them into my courses. Many of the talks are related to software engineering, so those are the ones I want to focus on.

If you watch one of the talks listed below and post a write up about it on the Canvas discussion forum, following/adapting the guidelines for a live talk, you can earn 10 extra credit points. You can get up to 30 points of extra credit across all Canvas discussion posts.

The Talks, in reverse chronological order

• Design is Testability with Titus Winters
• Large Language Models and the End of Programming with Matt Welsh
• Effective Developer Testing with Mauricio Aniche
• Tradeoffs in the Software Workflow with Titus Winters
• Lessons From the Fifty Year Quest to Turn Programmers into Software Engineers with Adam Barr
• Software Engineering at Google with Titus Winters
• The Essence of Software (Or Why Systems Often Fail by Design, and How to Fix Them) with Daniel Jackson
• This isn't an ACM Tech Talk, but it's still a good one: Linux Torvalds Presents the Fundamentals of git, circa 2013