Title :
Using the World Wide Web to promote software engineering education
Author :
Takvorian, Alexis ; Maranian, Ken ; Zack, David
Author_Institution :
RISC Software, Motorola, West Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
As part of Motorola´s efforts to establish PowerPC systems as the platform of choice in the industry, Motorola´s RISC Software department provides software development tools and operating systems support for the PowerPC architecture. The department has responded with enthusiasm to Motorola´s corporate software initiatives that strive to increase even further the quality of our software products. The World Wide Web was found to be a useful tool in the group´s software engineering education efforts. The Web has helped remove many obstacles encountered on the road to implementing software quality initiatives. The paper discusses how the World Wide Web technology helped bridge various levels of communication gaps and at the same time served as a catalyst for improving and distributing the group´s software engineering education efforts
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; computer architecture; computer science education; information retrieval; instruction sets; software engineering; teaching; Motorola; PowerPC architecture; PowerPC systems; RISC Software department; World Wide Web; communication gaps; corporate software initiatives; education efforts; operating systems support; software development tools; software engineering education; software quality initiatives; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Educational products; Operating systems; Programming; Reduced instruction set computing; Software engineering; Software quality; Software tools; Web sites;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Education, 1996. Proceedings., Ninth Conference on
Conference_Location :
Daytona Beach, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7249-8
DOI :
10.1109/CSEE.1996.491378