Experience with a project-based approach to teaching software engineering

Author

Oudshoorn, M.J. ; Maciunas, K.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Adelaide Univ., SA, Australia

fYear

1994

fDate

22-25 Nov 1994

Firstpage

220

Lastpage

225

Abstract

The paper reviews the experiences of teaching software engineering at the University of Adelaide using a group-based project over the course of one semester (15 weeks). Students are required to design, prototype, implement, maintain and document the software to satisfy the requirements defined by the lecturing staff who endeavour to simulate a customer as closely as possible. The paper focuses on the project and the benefits it offers rather than the content of the lectures

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; software engineering; software maintenance; software prototyping; system documentation; teaching; Adelaide University; customer simulation; group-based project; lecturing staff; project-based approach; requirements; semester; software design; software documentation; software engineering teaching; software implementation; software maintenance; software prototyping; Atmosphere; Computational modeling; Computer science; Documentation; Education; Feedback; Software engineering; Software prototyping; Software systems; Virtual prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Education Conference, 1994. Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Dunedin

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5870-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEDC.1994.475339

Filename

475339