update(readme) with current outcomes

Author: leesjensen

README.md

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-![BYU Logo](byuLogo.png)
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-# BYU **Advanced Software Construction** `cs240`
+# **BYU** Advanced Software Construction `cs240`
 
 ![cover](softwareconstructioncover.jpg)
 
 ## Welcome
 
-Advanced Software Construction provides you with the experience and skills necessary to use a modern programming language in an advanced development environment to design, test, and build a large multi-user application. Your application will have a client frontend program that communicates, over the network, with a centralized backend server.
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-The content for this course is represented by the following parts.
+Advanced software construction (CS240) helps you become responsible software engineers who continually improve your ability to frame, design, build, and test reliable systems. You will work with object-oriented design, network protocols, distributed services, and databases, while emphasizing long-term code quality, correctness, and responsibility for software others depend on—all while reflecting an eternal stewardship and concern for humanity.
 
 - [Syllabus](instruction/syllabus/syllabus.md) - Course policies
 - [Instruction](instruction/modules.md) - Course topics
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 ## Outcomes
 
-By the end of the course you should have experienced the following outcomes.
+You will learn to:
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+- **Frame** software engineering problems by clarifying system purpose, constraints, and responsibilities, demonstrating both sound technical judgment and a sense of ownership for the long-term impact of software others depend on.
+- **Explore** object-oriented frameworks, network protocols, distributed services, and databases with curiosity and discipline, developing accurate mental models while valuing learning as essential to responsible engineering practice.
+- **Design** software systems using object-oriented principles and clear interfaces that support reliability and maintainability, motivated by care for future users, collaborators, and the evolution of the system over time.
+- **Build** distributed applications that faithfully translate design intent into readable, testable implementations, showing diligence and integrity in the quality of code produced.
+- **Test** software systems systematically to validate behavior and uncover failure modes, valuing evidence, honesty, and accountability as foundations of trustworthy software.
+
+## Culminating Experience
+
+You will build a Semester long project that builds a full stack application that has been rigorously tested. The project will have the following characteristics.
 
-- Learn to construct a medium-scale server program with data persistence in a principled way by applying relevant engineering techniques such as up-front design, quality code construction, unit testing, assertions, and error handling.
-- Learn and apply basic software design principles such as single responsibility, low coupling, avoidance of code duplication and information/data hiding to create modular code.
-- Learn and apply the basics of relational database design, modeling and programmatic access.
-- Learn and apply basic security principles and concepts.
-- Learn to validate a program’s behavior against its specification using testing practices.
-- Use modern software tools including integrated development environments, testing frameworks, debuggers, version control, and documentation processing tools.
+1. Documented and tested distributed architecture
+1. Account creation and authentication
+1. Multiple user roles
+1. Enforcement of role restrictions
+1. Creation and joining of groups
+1. Real-time peer interaction over a network
+1. Persistent storage of data
+1. Robust handling of failure cases
+
+## Checkpoints
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+As you work on your culminating experience project you will pass through a series of checkpoints that demonstrate your increasing mastery.
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+![checkpoints.jpg](checkpoints.jpg)
 
 ## Technologies
 
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 - Command console
 - Java
 - HTTP
-- Web Services
-- Data Services demonstrated with MySQL
+- Web services
+- Data services demonstrated with MySQL
 - Realtime peer to peer interaction with WebSocket
 - Security
 - Testing
 - Application design
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