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 This course presents the basic principles of software development for reliable
 scientific and engineering software. Using example applications, a systematic
-process is given for the devel- opment and documentation of requirements, system
+process is given for the development and documentation of requirements, system
 design, module design, implementation, testing and inspection.
+
+--------------------------------------------------
+### Summary of Folder Structure and File Contents
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+** Course Outline **
+  - course outline
+  
+** Lectures **
+  - lecture material
+  - roughly organized following the typical "v-model" documentation (req, test, des)
+  - review of SE for SC
+  
+** BlankProjectTemplate **
+   - starting point for each project
+   - separate template for single scientific application versus family of computing libraries
+
+** ToolTutorials **
+ - tutorials on doxygen, git and GitLab, make, unit testing and LaTeX
+ 
+ ** Examples **
+  - examples of SC projects
+  - additional examples available on-line (as pointed to in the lecture notes)
+  
+** Reference Material **
+ - papers discussed during the term
+ - all citations are in a BibTeX file called Reference.bib
+ - Format of citation labels and filenames is the AuthorYear style (https://www.e-education.psu.edu/styleforstudents/c5_p11.html)