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Teaching software development skills early in the Curriculum through software engineering

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 37, Issue 3

Pages 133 - 137

https://doi.org/10.1145/1151954.1067484

Published: 27 June 2005 Publication History

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Software engineering is commonly taught as an upper level course in students in computer science. There are many software development skills that can be taught in a software engineering course that are useful in other courses. The development of this course has greatly influenced the types of projects and assignments that are required in the upper level courses. The upper level courses have been able to (1) develop more challenging projects and (2) reduce or eliminate the time spent on teaching development skills.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 37, Issue 3

September 2005

418 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1151954

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ITiCSE '05: Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
June 2005
440 pages
ISBN:1595930248
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