An introduction to software application development

There are many different approaches to software development. From ‘Agile’ to ‘Rational’ to ‘Waterfall’ to ‘Extreme’, the methodology that governs how software is built differs as wildly as the number of real world data challenges that a programmer may be faced with.

Just as there are somewhere over 100 human languages on earth and countless more dialects, the world of computer programming has given rise to a plethora of languages and guiding methodologies.

But what is a methodology? Quite simply it is a framework, a structure and a system of planning. Think of it like a template, or a strategic battle plan, or a recipe - it is simply a means by which one software application developer can align his or her working methods to a structure, which fellow programmers can align to as well if needed.

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