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Teaching Software Engineering Bottom Up
Overview A typical CS curriculum contains a course on software engineering, which introduces principles and heuristic methods for designing large software systems subject to desirable properties, such as maintainability and extensibility. The nature of this body of knowledge suggests that the best method for teaching it is to use the elaboration theory of instruction. Applying this theory to software engineering requires a complete inversion in the traditional coverage of topics. A new course, CSE 370, is developed which incorporates this "Bottom up" coverage. Using this method, the authors are able to instill a higher level of cognitive ability in software-engineering methods than they were able to achieve using the old method.
| Publisher | American Society for Engineering Education | File Format | |
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| Date Published | April 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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