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This paper discusses a project to introduce software reuse, in the form of megaprogramming, to high school and university students. The project is working with high schools and universities to develop course materials and curricula incorporating reuse. These course and curricula are based on a version of megaprogramming called Synthesis. We have developed a one-to-two week pilot course that is being taught in several high schools. This course, while not an attempt to teach students systematic techniques for software reuse, introduces the students to key reuse concepts and shows them the importance of reuse. We are using feedback from the course offerings to help us continue developing the course and curriculum material.
This paper recounts some of the issues encountered by the project in working with the high schools and universities, and outlines our current strategy for teaching reuse at these levels.
This material is based in part upon work sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency Grant #MDA972-92-J-1018.
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Eward, M., Wartik, S. (1993). Introducing megaprogramming at the high school and undergraduate levels. 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/BFb0017643
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