Title :
PSPSM in the large class
Author :
Carrington, David ; McEniery, Ben ; Johnston, Dan
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Queensland Univ., St. Lucia, Qld., Australia
Abstract :
Describes our experience with teaching some elements of the Personal Software ProcessSM as part of a second programming course. A distinctive feature was the class size of more than 360 students. The goals were to help students develop good software development habits early, and to encourage them to see software development as a systematic discipline rather than a trial-and-error activity. The results indicate partial success, with indicators for future improvement. We hope that other people will be able to build on our experience of teaching the concepts of PSP to large groups of students
Keywords :
computer science education; educational courses; programming; software engineering; teaching; PSP; Personal Software Process; class size; second programming course; software development habits; students; systematic discipline; teaching; Australia; Computer errors; Computer languages; Computer science; Computer science education; Concrete; Java; Programming profession; Samarium; Software engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Education and Training, 2001. Proceedings. 14th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Charlotte, NC
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1059-0
DOI :
10.1109/CSEE.2001.913824
