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Reinvigorating the software engineering curriculum with Jackson's methods and ideas

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Nicholas OurusoffAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 36, Issue 2

Pages 93 - 96

https://doi.org/10.1145/1024338.1024380

Published: 01 June 2004 Publication History

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Because they are sound, original, and provide a needed critical perspective, Jackson's ideas and methods deserve to be incorporated into - and can invigorate - the software engineering curriculum.

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A more complete bibliography can be found by consulting Michael Jackson's Home Page at http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/jacksonma/ and Steve Ferg's Web Site of Jackson's Software Development Methods at http://www.ferg.org/jackson_methods/index.html.

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{Cameron 1983 & 1989} JSP&JSD: The Jackson Approach to Software Development. IEEE Computer Society Press. 1983, 1989.

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{Jackson} 1975 Principles of Program Design. Academic Press, New York.

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{Jackson} 1976 M A Jackson; Constructive Methods of Program Design; in Proc 1st ECI Conference 1976, pp 236--262; Springer Verlag LNCS 44, Heidelberg 1976. (Reprinted in Cameron 1983/89)

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{Jackson} 1982 A System Development Method. Tools and notions for program construction: An advanced course; Nice 1981; pages 1--25; Cambridge University Press, 1982.

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{Jackson} 1983 System Development. Prentice-Hall International, Chichester, U.K.

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{Jackson} 1994 Problems, Descriptions and Objects; in OOIS'94: Proceedings of 1994 International Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems, pp25--35; Springer Verlag, 1994.

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{Jackson} 1995 Software Requirements and Specification. Addison-Wesley.

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{Jackson} 1999 Problem Analysis Using Small Problem Frames. South African Computer Journal 22; Special Issue on WOFACS'98, pp47--60, 1999.

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{Jackson} 2000 Problem Frames: Analyzing and Structuring Software Development Problems. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. November 2000.

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{Jackson} 2000a Michael Jackson; Problem Analysis and Structure; in Engineering Theories of Software Construction, Tony Hoare, Manfred Broy and Ralf Steinbruggen eds; Proceedings of NATO Summer School, Marktoberdorf, August 2000, pages 3--20; IOS Press, 2001

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{Jackson} 2000c The Origins of JSP and JSD: a Personal Recollection. IEEE Annals of Software Engineering Volume 22 Number 2, pages 61--63, 66, April-June 2000.

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{Ourusoff 2003} Ourusoff, Nicholas. "Using Jackson Structured Programming (JSP) and Jackson Workbench to Teach Program Design". Proceedings of 2003 Informing Science and Information Technology Education, Pori, Finland, June 24--27, 2003.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 36, Issue 2

June 2004

108 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1024338

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