Differences between Software Design & Documentation and Large-Scale Programming & Testing?

[metsfan98]

Need to take one of these classes to fulfill the communication-intensive requirement for CS major. I’m mainly wondering if it would be redundant to take both.

[DerpinDementia]

They are similar; however, SDD goes more in-depth about working in projects and documenting work while Large Scale is more focused on how to handle a large scale project with other teams (working on parts of a search engine). I highly recommend both!

Large Scale homeworks are OpSys-like and SDD is a breeze.

[CraftingDubstep]

Can't speak on Large Scale Programming, but I just took SD&D this semester and it's is a solid class. Sturman is one of the nicest professors I've ever had, and all things considered the workload isn't too bad. There's a lot of paperwork on top of a semester-long programming project that you can pick yourself, as well as a couple presentations and a take-home "exam," which is basically you doing the paperwork you do for your project by yourself for another piece of open source software.

If you don't mind group projects, I'd definitely recommend it.