I expected a course in software engineering to cover what goes into building a software from scratch, including the design, the technologies and the life cycle. After the first intro course to software engineering that we took last year, I expected it to include aspects of multiple courses from back-end to front-end, databases, and security. After the first week in this course, my expectations were met, but I also learned more about things like scalability and maintainability along with the importance of communication amongst not only developers but with the clients as well. In my coding experience so far, it has been easy to make changes or refactor code, because I've been primarily working alone or in small groups. Emphasizing the impact of project management and tradeoffs will be vital to working on larger scale projects
