A practical approach of teaching Software Engineering

In today´s software industry a software engineer is not only expected to successfully cope with technical challenges, but also to deal with non-technical issues arising from difficult project situations. These issues typically include understanding the customer´s domain and requirements, working in a team, organizing the division of work, and coping with time pressure and hard deadlines. Thus, in our opinion teaching Software Engineering, (SE) not only requires studying theory using text books, but also providing students with the experience of typical non-technical issues in a software project. This article reports experiences with the concept of a course focusing on providing practical know-how.