The integration of software engineering into a computer science curriculum

Hilburn, Thomas B.; Hirmanpour, Iraj; Kornecki, Andrew J.

doi:10.1007/3-540-58951-1_94

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“…Traditionally, software engineering principles have been taught in dedicated, isolated upper-level courses or as an optional area of focus in curricula. 1 However, based on the student product turned out over the years, this approach has been perceived as being inadequate in several respects. 2,3 Consequently, industry has called upon educators to provide students with more practical and more thorough software engineering experiences.…”

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Establishing an Early Foundation in Software Engineering: Framework, Experiences and Results*

McCauley

Jackson

Manaris

1999

J of Engineering Edu

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In the fall of 1994 we reorganized the content of our three-course introductory computer science sequence in order to introduce software engineering concepts early and provide a consistent software engineering focus from one course to the next. To implement these changes, we established detailed documentation and design standards. These standards would serve as a framework for teaching the software engineering principles and techniques that we considered appropriate and essential to novice software developers. In an attempt to assess the impact of this new teaching approach, we examined student performance in upper-level, projectoriented courses with respect to early exposure to software engineering concepts. This paper describes the documentation and design standards, as well as how these standards have been used as a framework for teaching software engineering concepts early in the curriculum. It also reports on what we have learned through assessment of this approach. Results indicate that students exposed early to software engineering concepts are indeed better prepared for upper-level project-oriented courses.

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Establishing an Early Foundation in Software Engineering: Framework, Experiences and Results*

McCauley

Jackson

Manaris

1999

J of Engineering Edu

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“…Traditionally, software engineering principles have been taught in dedicated upper-level courses or as an optional area of focus in curricula [1]. However, based on the student product turned out over the years, this approach has been perceived as being inadequate in several respects [2,3] and industry has called on educators to provide students with more practical software engineering experiences [4].…”

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“…Thus, we perused the literature to identify additional software engineering concepts that were considered appropriate and essential for novice programmers. Concepts that can be incorporated naturally into our introductory sequence using this documentation framework include [8,1,9]:…”

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Teaching software engineering early

McCauley

Jackson

1999

SIGCSE Bull.

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In the fall of 1994, we reorganized the content of our three-course computer science introductory sequence in order to introduce software engineering concepts early and provide a consistent software engineering focus from one course to the next. We also established documentation and design standards that would serve as a framework for teaching the software engineering principles and techniques that we considered appropriate and essential to novice software developers. In an attempt to assess the impact of this new teaching process, we compared the performances in upper-level project-oriented courses of students who had been exposed to the new introductory sequence to those of students who had not.This paper describes the documentation and design standards established in 1994, their evolution over the past four years, and how these standards can be used as a framework for teaching software engineering concepts early in the curriculum. It also reports on what we have learned through tracking our students. We found that, in three upper-level courses, project grades for students exposed to software engineering concepts early averaged as much as half a letter grade higher than those of other students.

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“…Software engineering principles are typically relegated to junior-or senior-level software engineering courses or to an optional area of concentration in the curriculum (Hilburn, et al, 1995). This practice has been supported by published recommendations on the structure and organization of undergraduate computer science (CS) curricula.…”

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“…(Weide, 1995) The U.S. software industry is calling for the integration of more practicat software engineering experiences into the curriculum. (Wall Street Journal, 1995) Accordingly, many educators advocate that certain software engineering principles may be most effectively taught if introduced early and reinforced throughout the CS curriculum (Gersting, 1994, Hilburn, et al, 1995McCauley, et al, 1995;Oliver & Dalbey, 1994;Roberg6 & Suriano, 1994). Our philosophy is that software engineering principles are an integral part of the entire undergraduate CS curriculum aIld that practical software engineering experiences presented early in the curriculum are influential to the success of students in upper-level courses and beyond.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Documentation standards in the undergraduate computer science curriculum

1996

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This paper focuses on documentation standards and their employment throughout the undergraduate computer science curriculum.Specifically, it presents the motivation for a set of well-defined documentation standards for programming-intensive computer science courses. Additionally, it discusses the establishment of standards addressing both the procedure-and object-oriented programming paradigms. Finally, it relates the authors' experiences in using such standards to teach many software engineering principles along with required concepts in the undergraduate computer science curriculum.

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The integration of software engineering into a computer science curriculum

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Establishing an Early Foundation in Software Engineering: Framework, Experiences and Results*

Establishing an Early Foundation in Software Engineering: Framework, Experiences and Results*

Teaching software engineering early

Documentation standards in the undergraduate computer science curriculum

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