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Teaching model-driven software development: revealing the "great miracle" of code generation to students

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Andreas Schmidt,

Markus DickerhofAuthors Info & Claims

ACE '14: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference - Volume 148

Pages 97 - 104

Published: 20 January 2014 Publication History

Abstract

A didactic approach into teaching model-driven software development (MDSD) is proposed in this paper. The main idea is to focus on conveying underlying concepts, rather than managing a concrete tool or presenting a purely theoretical approach, when teaching MDSD. This objective shall be reached by the development of a simple code generator by the students. For this reason the whole process from graphical modeling to the actual code generation is traversed twice. The first time from back to front to introduce the main concepts of a code generator engine and in a second pass from the beginning to extend the generator by additional functionality. The course will then be completed by transferring the knowledge learnt to a concrete generator tool within the framework of a simple exercise and by a presentation.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3270112.3270124
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3024906.3024909

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ACE '14: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference - Volume 148

January 2014

174 pages

ISBN:9781921770319

Editors:
Jacqueline Whalley
AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand
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Daryl D'Souza
RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Datacom: Datacom
Australian Comp Soc: Australian Computer Society
SERL: Software Engineering Research Lab, Auckland University of Technology
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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
Univ. of Western Sydney: University of Western Sydney
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
CORE - Computing Research and Education
Colab: Collaboratory of Design & Creative Technologies, Auckland University of Technology
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SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

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Gilson F(2018)Teaching software language engineering and usability through students peer reviewsProceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings10.1145/3270112.3270124(98-105)Online publication date: 14-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3270112.3270124
Kuzniarz LMartins L(2016)Teaching Model-Driven Software DevelopmentProceedings of the 2016 ITiCSE Working Group Reports10.1145/3024906.3024909(45-56)Online publication date: 9-Jul-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3024906.3024909

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