• Process Fundamentals
  • The Spiral Model, iterative and incremental
  • Overview of Scrum and XP
  • Conway's Law - why Process and Architecture go hand-in-hand
  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery - Walking Skeleton and End-to-End
  • The Design Smells: Rigidity, Fragility, Immobility and Viscosity
  • The Two Values of Software
• Fundamentals of Object-Oriented and Object-Functional Programming
  • Structured Programming
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Functional Programming
  • Classes, Objects, Structures, Data Structures
  • Functions / Procedures / Methods / Operations / Messages
  • Visibility / Accessibility
  • Encapsulation, Inner Classes, Inheritance
  • Polymorphism, Higher-Order Functions, Closures, Lambda Expressions
• Agile Requirements Engineering
  • User / Actor / Persona
  • User Story, Use Case, UML Use Case Diagram
  • Beyond User Stories: Epics, Goals, Features, Tasks
  • UML Class Diagram
  • Analysis vs Design
  • The Gherkin Language and BDD
• Agile Testing
  • Why Testing and Architecture cannot be separated
  • TDD: The Three Laws of Test-Driven Development, Benefits, Red-Green-Refactor Cycle
  • BDD
  • Behavior and State
  • Mocking
• Agile Architecture
  • Coupling and Cohesion
  • Domain-Driven Design
  • The SOLID and Package Principles
  • UML: Class Diagram, Package Diagram, Composite Structure Diagram, Component Diagram, Deployment Diagram, Profile Diagram, Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagram, State Machine Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Communication Diagram, Timing Diagram, Interaction Overview Diagram
• Patterns
  • Design vs High-Level Design
  • The Gang of Four Patterns, i.e. Template Method, Singleton, Abstract Factory
  • So-called "Architecture Patterns", i.e. Micro Kernel, Multi-Tier, Micro Services, Protocol Stack

Examples are in UML 2.5, C11, C++11 / C++14, Java 8 and other languages. The C/C++ compiler used is GCC 5.2.