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Antipatterns

Objectives

During this activity:

• Students shall do a class presentation on different software development antipatterns.

This activity helps the student develop the following skills, values and attitudes: self-learning, proficiency in English, ability to analyze, synthesize and evaluate, and critical thinking.

Activity Description

Individually, each student shall do a class presentation on software development antipatterns as specified in the following table:

Name	Antipattern	Date
Marco Antonio Chávez Fuentes	The Blob	Wednesday, May 2
Melissa Moya Pérez	Lava Flow	Wednesday, May 2
Juan Ramón Fernández Alvarez	Functional Decomposition	Wednesday, May 2
Eduardo Murillo González	Poltergeists	Wednesday, May 2
Guillermo Arturo Pineda Beltrán	Boat Anchor	Wednesday, May 2
Jorge Luis Corona Pineda	Golden Hammer	Wednesday, May 2
Julio Gerardo Galindez Barreda	Cut-And-Paste Programming	Thursday, May 3
Salvador Aguilar Galindo	Dead End	Thursday, May 3
Sebastián Antonio Olivares García	Spaghetti Code	Thursday, May 3
Jorge de Jesús Tinoco Huesca	Input Kludge	Thursday, May 3
Thania Guadalupe Cerecedo Zamarripa	Walking through a Minefield	Thursday, May 3

Each presentation must meet the following requirements:

• It must be completely in English.
• It must last between 3 and 7 minutes.
• You must use sheets of flip chart paper as audio visual aids.
• You may not use a computer/projector during the presentation.
• You must allow one or two minutes for questions (additional to the 3-7 minutes of presentation time).

Evaluation

Elements that will be taken into account during the evaluation include: knowledge of the topic, clarity of the presentation, quality of support materials, fluency and pronunciation.