A Comprehensive Software Engineering Educational Experience

Abstract

The original plan of the project outlined in the proposal in August of 1991 was to experiment with possible solutions to the problems of offering a comprehensive software engineering course to undergraduates. The target student was assumed to be a junior computer science major with programming experience in Pascal through our CSC 260 (Computer Programming II) course. This course is approximately to the ACM designated CS2 course. Some of the problems with software engineering education to undergraduates were identified to be: (1) The inability to complete quality documents: (user's manuals, requirements specifications, and detailed design) and implement the project during one 14 week semester; (2) Since the ARPA call for proposals included an Ada education component, I felt that it was impossible to have students without an Ada background to complete the implementation of the software engineering project; and (3). The lack of undergraduate experience in the use of CASE tools.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 15, 1993
Accession Number
ADA270583

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  • George C. Harrison

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  • Norfolk State University

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  • Computer Languages
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  • Computers
  • Education
  • Engineering
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  • Programming Languages
  • Software Development
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  • Computer science

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