DocumentCode
3001367
Title
PSPSM in the large class
Author
Carrington, David ; McEniery, Ben ; Johnston, Dan
Author_Institution
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Queensland Univ., St. Lucia, Qld., Australia
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
81
Lastpage
88
Abstract
Describes our experience with teaching some elements of the Personal Software ProcessSM as part of a second programming course. A distinctive feature was the class size of more than 360 students. The goals were to help students develop good software development habits early, and to encourage them to see software development as a systematic discipline rather than a trial-and-error activity. The results indicate partial success, with indicators for future improvement. We hope that other people will be able to build on our experience of teaching the concepts of PSP to large groups of students
Keywords
computer science education; educational courses; programming; software engineering; teaching; PSP; Personal Software Process; class size; second programming course; software development habits; students; systematic discipline; teaching; Australia; Computer errors; Computer languages; Computer science; Computer science education; Concrete; Java; Programming profession; Samarium; Software engineering;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Software Engineering Education and Training, 2001. Proceedings. 14th Conference on
Conference_Location
Charlotte, NC
ISSN
1093-0175
Print_ISBN
0-7695-1059-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CSEE.2001.913824
Filename
913824
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