• DocumentCode
    1623851
  • Title

    Designing a First-Year Project Course to Engage Freshman Software Engineers: An Experience Report

  • Author

    Hendrix, Dean ; Umphress, David ; Cross, James H., II

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Auburn Univ., AL
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    25
  • Lastpage
    34
  • Abstract
    This paper describes a software engineering project course for freshman. The course has been designed to engage and motivate software engineering students at the beginning of their matriculation, while at the same time providing solid software engineering content. Student teams use a simple software process based on extreme programming to complete a semester-long project in computer animation. Course motivation, structure, and implementation are described
  • Keywords
    computer animation; computer science education; educational courses; software engineering; computer animation; extreme programming; first-year project course design; freshman; software engineering project course; software engineering students; software process; Accreditation; Animation; Computer science; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Motion pictures; Programming profession; Software engineering; Software standards; Solids;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Engineering Education and Training, 2006. Proceedings. 19th Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Turtle Bay, HI
  • ISSN
    1093-0175
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2557-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSEET.2006.14
  • Filename
    1617327