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Small service is true service while it lasts: integrating web services into IT education

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SIGITE '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Information technology education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1867651.1867659

Published: 07 October 2010 Publication History

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Web services have been a recognized (albeit relatively minor) part of web development since the standardization of web service standards in the late 1990s. However, in the past three or four years, the adoption of simpler REST-based web services has dramatically increased the possible interoperability of web applications. As a consequence, a large number of real-world web sites now routinely integrate (or mashup) data from external sources using these services. This paper provides an overview of this new approach to development and describes a third-year web development course that heavily integrated a wide variety of web services into the student assignments. The paper identifies three main integration problems encountered by the students and concludes that this type of web development provides a realistic way to integrate "integration" into the IT curriculum.

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Connolly RActon DEiselt KTew A(2012)Criticizing and modernizing computing curriculumProceedings of the Seventeenth Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education10.1145/2247569.2247587(52-56)Online publication date: 4-May-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2247569.2247587
Connolly RRößling GNaps TSpannagel C(2011)Awakening Rip Van WinkleProceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education10.1145/1999747.1999756(18-22)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1999747.1999756

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Small service is true service while it lasts: integrating web services into IT education
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Information systems education

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Connolly RActon DEiselt KTew A(2012)Criticizing and modernizing computing curriculumProceedings of the Seventeenth Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education10.1145/2247569.2247587(52-56)Online publication date: 4-May-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2247569.2247587
Connolly RRößling GNaps TSpannagel C(2011)Awakening Rip Van WinkleProceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education10.1145/1999747.1999756(18-22)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1999747.1999756

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