Bringing undergraduates to the web: Baby steps in webifying a software engineering curriculum

Software engineering has evolved greatly during the last couple of decades. The methodologies for organizing software engineering projects, as well as the technologies for building software have changed dramatically. However, this evolution is seldom reflected in the software engineering-related education provided by research-oriented computer science departments. Many traditional research-oriented universities continue to teach using the “talking head”-approach, where students are expected to absorb information out of the atmosphere in the lecture halls. In this paper, we describe our work towards “webifying” a software engineering curriculum, where learning by doing plays a key role.