SWEN-261: Intro to Software Engineering

Design Documentation (team)

  • make sure your design document is fully up to date, and update it if it's not
  • try to make it look nice, there is a Markdown cheat sheet that you can use
  • generate a PDF file from your MD file, it can be done in different ways
    • VSCode extension
      • install the extension
      • open your MD file, right click on the file area and choose Markdown PDF: (Export pdf)
      • a generated PDF file will be placed into the same directory as your MD file
    • Pandoc and MiKTex
      • install Pandoc and MiKTex (you can use SE lab computers instead, they are already installed there)
      • go to your /doc directory and run mvn exec:exec@docs
        • if you have issues on Mac, it may happen due to an issue described in the discussion. Therefore, the proposed solution may help
        • you can generate Pandoc directly without Maven by running pandoc DesignDoc.md -o DesignDoc.pdf
    • online services
      • there is a set of online tools available that you can find and use if you want, but be mindful about data privacy as the document contains your names

Submission

Submit the generated PDF file to the assignment submission page on myCourses.