What is modern-software-dev-assignments?

This repository holds the programming assignments for CS146S: The Modern Software Developer, a course taught at Stanford University in fall 2025. The course has its own website at themodernsoftware.dev, and this repository is where students download and submit the associated coding work. The assignments are written in Python and require Python 3.12. The setup process uses Anaconda to manage the Python environment, which is a common approach in data science and engineering courses because it keeps project dependencies isolated from the rest of your system. Once the environment is created and activated, the project uses Poetry to install its dependencies. Poetry is a tool for managing Python packages and project configurations in a reproducible way. The README for this repository covers only the initial setup steps needed to get the development environment running. It does not describe the content of individual assignments or the topics covered in the course itself. Students looking for lecture materials, syllabi, or assignment descriptions would need to visit the course website. This kind of repository is typical of university courses that require students to write code: a shared starting point is provided, students clone it, complete the assignments locally, and submit their work. The repository is public, which is why it has accumulated a large number of stars from people outside the course who are interested in the material or the tooling setup.