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Taming complexity in large-scale system projects

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SIGCSE '12: Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education

Pages 409 - 414

https://doi.org/10.1145/2157136.2157259

Published: 29 February 2012 Publication History

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Engaging students in large system development projects is an important educational objective, since it exposes design and programming challenges that come to play only with scale. Alas, large scale system projects can be monstrously complex - to the extent of being infeasible in academic settings. We describe a set of principles and a framework that enable students to develop large-scale systems, e.g. a complete hardware platform or a compiler, in several semester weeks.

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SIGCSE '12: Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education

February 2012

734 pages

ISBN:9781450310987

DOI:10.1145/2157136

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Laurie Smith King
College of the Holy Cross
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Colorado School of Mines
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Rochester Institute of Technology

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