Category: Other : Software Development

Spend 30 minutes doing a google search on ‘SQL injection’.  For this discussion board, provide a paragraph description of your interpretation of SQL injection.  Many times, the SQL used in SQL injection comes from a hacker/user of a web application through an INPUT textbox.  In a second paragraph, theorize how we can stop a hacker from being able to use an input textbox (or the console) as a mechanism for doing SQL injection.

Classes and the concepts behind classes are going to be one of the more complex topics you will learn in software development.  We will cover them in numerous ‘classes’ throughout the program.  But are they really necessary?  Research the origins of ‘classes’ and outline the why, what, when, where, etc of classes.  Was C++ the first language to have classes?  Try to determine why Python doesn’t full implement classes like C++ does.  For example, Python doesn’t have fully private attributes.

You might find it bizarre that we are just now (as in this time in history) putting such a high value on data. In reality though, data has always been valuable. From the early days of advertisements, we have relied on using data to determine outcomes. We’ve moved into a time period where use of data is paramount in all decision making. Just do a search in google and see the advertisements that show us in Instagram and Facebook.  Data is now called Big Data due to the vast amount being collected, stored and analyzed today.
Research and comment on the amount of data being collected daily now or in the resent time.  Can you find how much data the average cell phone creates daily?
Further, provide two pros and two cons when it comes to working with amount of data being consumed.
Elaborate on how we balance data collection and personal privacy.

Just like decisions, we have repetition in our lives each and every day.  In fact, tuesday might just feel like a repeat of monday and so on until saturday.  Alarm at 5:30, coffee at 5:45, gym at 6:00 over and over.  How have you incorporated technology like your cell phone into the repetition?  Are you creating nested loops?  In the future, would you be able to program your personal android humanoid to handle repetitive tasks?  What repetitive tasks would your humanoid do?

As a software developer, there will be times you are given a task to create the code behind a set of requirements.  Once you finish that work, you move to another.  Your original code goes into production.  If it turns out you have a bug in the code you wrote, you might get it back or an Operations & Maintenance (O&M) will fix it.  Our code will more than likely contain many functions.  Regardless of who gets the code to fix, there is a good chance you won’t remember what you did.  This is where the dreaded comments come into play.  Engineers and developers really don’t like to write documentation as they think the code is self-explanatory.  Many times this is true and we don’t want to documentation code JUST to document.  Research online the best practices for code documentation.  I would expect at least 2-3 paragraph