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Reflections on Software Engineering Education

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The “engineering” focus in software engineering education leaves instructors vulnerable to several traps. It also misleads students as to SE’s essential human and social dimensions. In this paper we argue that there’s more to SE than engineering. A major challenge is to reconcile the engineering dimension with the human and social dimension.

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  1. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

    Hans van Vliet

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di L’Aquila, 67100, L’Aquila, Italy

    Paola Inverardi

  2. University of Lugano and Technical University of Vienna,  

    Mehdi Jazayeri

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van Vliet, H. (2006). Reflections on Software Engineering Education. In: Inverardi, P., Jazayeri, M. (eds) Software Engineering Education in the Modern Age. ICSE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4309. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11949374_1

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