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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Education and Training, 2006. Proceedings. 19th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Turtle Bay, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2557-1
DOI :
10.1109/CSEET.2006.14
