Teaching what they need instead of teaching what we like—the new software engineering curriculum at the University of Stuttgart

Ludewig, Jochen; Reißing, Ralf

doi:10.1016/s0950-5849(98)00045-7

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“…Students are asked to form teams of 4-6 students each for the course projects. 3 Case study 1 (a case study that uses the Agile model). Students start working on project 1 (using the Agile model).…”

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“…Brereton et al [2] has noted benefits of teaching Software Engineering using collaborative and group projects. Ludewig and Reißing [3] have investigated and highlighted the importance of using application-oriented problems in teaching SE to make it more practical. Culwin [4] has emphasized the need to use JAVA as the implementation language since students are more likely to use it in their work places.…”

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Teaching Software Engineering: A Critical Path Method

Shata¹

2012

IJCCE

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Software Engineering is a pivot course in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering curriculums. This paper briefly presents traditional content which is usually being taught in many Software Engineering courses, and highlights some problems encountered during teaching this content. Then it builds on those problems to suggest a more appropriate content for the course. The suggested content is applied in nature to make the course interesting to students, pushes programming to the very beginning of the course so that students may have hands-on practice for a longer time, removes many topics which are usually found in traditional Software Engineering courses such as the structured approach, cuts on the number of diagrams that can be replaced by others to reduce confusion. The paper will consider the trade of between the material which was cut and the benefits gained from providing the students with a focused curriculum that may limit the difficulty and the confusion usually result from teaching a traditional curriculum, this includes limitations and implications of our approach and the expected gains.Index Terms-Software engineering, curriculum design, object-oriented, structured approach, JAVA.

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Teaching Software Engineering: A Critical Path Method

Shata¹

2012

IJCCE

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“…Hence, at Technische Universität München (TUM), we decided to do a first step and to integrate a so-called student project into TUM's international CSE master's program [3]. The student project is a format adopted from Universität Stuttgart, where such projects have been a very successful part of the Software Engineering curriculum for several years [4] and have, recently, also been offered by the authors with a CSE-related topic (Computational Steering -The Virtual Wind Tunnel [5]). Of course, normally, planning to add something new to an existing study program is a quite complicated endeavour, since hardly anyone will be eager to give up some course as a countermove.…”

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Learning by Doing: Software Projects in CSE Education

Bernreuther

Bungartz

2006

Computational Science – ICCS 2006

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Software development is one of the main routine activities in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). Nevertheless, there is a huge gap between software engineering techniques available and established today in most fields where mainstream software is developed on the one hand and the typical extent of their application in a CSE context on the other hand. CSE curricula often reflect this tendency by not including software engineering topics adequately. This contribution reports experiences with a new course format called "student project" in the CSE master's program at TU München. There, for about half a year, a group of 4-8 students cooperate on a software development projectthis time dealing with molecular dynamics. Although it is one objective to get a well performing code, the project's focus is on the consequent application of software engineering and project management practices.

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