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A two-semester sequence in Software Engineering has been offered to Computer Science undergraduates at Purdue University since the fall of 1991. An attempt was made to balance the teaching of theory and practice of software engineering and provide the students with an opportunity to apply some of the techniques learned in the classroom to a controlled development project. The project was selected from an industrial setting and the product developed was returned to industry. We describe the architecture of the offering and our experience during the first offering in Fall 1991 and Spring 1992.
This work was supported in part by an educational supplement from the National Science Foundation No. CCR 9102311.
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Boardman, D.B., Mathur, A.P. (1993). A two-semester undergraduate sequence in Software Engineering: Architecture and experience. In: Díaz-Herrera, J.L. (eds) Software Engineering Education. CSEE 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017604
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