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Realism, style, and design: Packing it into a constrained course

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 8, Issue 1

Pages 150 - 157

https://doi.org/10.1145/952989.803466

Published: 01 February 1976 Publication History

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Although the importance of providing realistic educational experiences involving the design of software systems has been recognized in many undergraduate curricula, it is difficult to consistently do so. With the constraints of an existing curricula and a small amount of class time a course has been developed that provides a rich experience in software design, including the critical aspects of group work and programming and documentation style. The course, its goals, and main features are described and analyzed. Experience with the course is reported and the problem of evaluating such a course is discussed.

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Realism, style, and design: Packing it into a constrained course
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Model curricula

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 8, Issue 1

Proceedings of the SIGCSE-SIGCUE joint symposium on Computer science education

February 1976

399 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/952989

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SIGCSE '76: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE-SIGCUE technical symposium on Computer science and education
February 1976
403 pages
ISBN:9781450374125
DOI:10.1145/800107
Editors:
Ron Colman,
Paul Lorton

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