MSSE Key Technology Resources

Concentration 1: Managing Software Engineering

Course 1: Managing Software Engineering

Artificial Intelligence code augmentation tools: modern software engineers should make use of artificial intelligence tools to assist them in the coding process:

• Code generation: ChatGPT - https://chat.openai.com/ 
• Coding knowledge: Phind - https://www.phind.com/search?home=true 
• IDE-based code completion: GitHub Copilot in VS Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/overview 

Python:

• Python & IDLE - https://www.python.org/downloads/ 

Recommended Integrated Development Environment

• VS Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/ 

Agile Development:

• Agile resources - https://www.agilealliance.org/agile-essentials/ 

Tooling:

• Distributed version control: Git - https://git-scm.com/ 
• GitHub - https://github.com/ 

Course 2: Meeting User Needs

Agile methods:

• Scrum - https://www.scrum.org/ 

UI/UX Design:

• Figma/Wireframes - https://www.figma.com/ 

Course 3: Cloud Foundations

Virtual Machines

• Oracle VM VirtualBox - https://www.virtualbox.org/ 

Cloud Computing

• Amazon Web Services - https://aws.amazon.com/
• Microsoft Azure - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - https://cloud.google.com/ 

Containerization

• Docker - https://www.docker.com/ 

Concentration 2: Web Application and Interface Design

Course 1: Web Application Foundations

• HTML  - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web/HTML_basics 
• CSS – https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS 
• JavaScript - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript 

Course 2: Interactive Web Pages

JavaScript Frameworks:

• jQuery - https://jquery.com/ 
• React - https://react.dev/ 
• Angular - https://angular.io/

Course 3: Relational Databases

• PostgreSQL - https://www.postgresql.org/ 

Course 4: Back Ends

Back End Frameworks

• Flask (Python-based) - https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/3.0.x/ 
• Django (Python-based) - https://www.djangoproject.com/ 
• ExpressJS (JavaScript-based) - https://expressjs.com/ 

Concentration 3: Software Design & Architecture

Course 1: Design & UML

• Unified Modeling Language (UML) - https://www.uml.org/ 

Course 2: Paradigms & Patterns

• Python typing - https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
• Python functional programming - https://docs.python.org/3/howto/functional.html
• Haskell - https://www.haskell.org/

Course 5: Cloud Services & Architectures

• AWS Academy - https://aws.amazon.com/training/awsacademy/ 

Concentration 4: Software Testing & CI/CD

Course 1: Introduction to Git & GitHub

• Git - https://git-scm.com/ 
• GitHub - https://github.com/

Course 2: Software Testing

• pytest (Python testing) - https://docs.pytest.org/en/8.0.x/ 
• Jest (JavaScript testing) - https://jestjs.io/ 

Course 3: CI/CD & Software Maintenance

• GitHub Actions - https://github.com/features/actions 
• YAML - https://yaml.org/

Concentration 5: Cloud Applications & Architectures

Course 1: AWS Academy Cloud Foundations

• AWS Academy - https://aws.amazon.com/training/awsacademy/

Courses 2 - 5: Migrating a Web Application & Serverless Application Development

• AWS Services - https://aws.amazon.com/ 

Concentration 6: Introduction to Machine Learning

Courses 1-6: Classical Machine Learning

• Google Colab - https://colab.research.google.com/ 
• Jupyter Notebooks - https://jupyter.org/ 
• scikit-learn - https://scikit-learn.org/stable/ 

Course 7: Neural Networks

• PyTorch - https://pytorch.org/ 

Concentration 7: Artificial Intelligence Engineering

Course 1: Adopting AI in Your Organization

• ChatGPT - https://chat.openai.com/ 
• Gemini - https://gemini.google.com/app 
• Chatbot Arena Leaderboard - https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboard 
• Hugging Face Models - https://huggingface.co/models 

Course 2: LLM-based Applications

• Streamlit - https://streamlit.io/ 
• LangChain - https://www.langchain.com/ 
• Chroma - https://www.trychroma.com/ 
• Gemini API - https://ai.google.dev/
• OpenAI API - https://platform.openai.com/ 

Course 3: Model Fine-tuning

• Google Colab - https://colab.research.google.com/ 
• Hugging Face Transformers - https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/index 
• Fine-tuning - https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/training

Concentration 8: Microservices Architectures

Course 1: Microservices: Designing & Building

• Docker - https://www.docker.com/

Course 2: Microservices: Deploying & Testing

• GitHub Actions - https://github.com/features/actions

Course 3: Scaling & Kubernetes

• Kubernetes - https://kubernetes.io/
• kubectl - https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/