Teaching data structures and algorithms in a software engineering degree: some experience with Java

Author

Cowling, A.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Sheffield Univ., UK

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

257

Abstract

The paper describes experience of redesigning, as part of an undergraduate degree programme in software engineering, a course in one of its related disciplines, namely data structures and algorithms. This redesign was required to adapt the course from an imperative language (namely Modula-2) to an object oriented one (namely Java). The paper describes the aims that were established for this course, in order to reflect the requirements of the software engineering programme, and it discusses how the content of the module was determined by these aims and by the relevant features of Java. This provides a basis for qualitative evaluations of the impact of these Java features on the delivery of such a course, and the contribution of the course to the programme as a whole

Keywords

Java; computer science education; data structures; educational courses; software engineering; teaching; Java; Modula-2; algorithms; data structures; imperative language; object oriented language; qualitative evaluations; software engineering degree; software engineering programme; teaching; undergraduate degree programme; Computer languages; Computer science; Data engineering; Data structures; Education; Java; Object oriented modeling; Software algorithms; Software engineering; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education and Training, 2001. Proceedings. 14th Conference on

Conference_Location

Charlotte, NC

ISSN

1093-0175

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1059-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEE.2001.913851

Filename

913851