Real-world object-oriented design experience for computer science students

Due to the limitations of time and resources, many undergraduate software engineering courses provide a survey of a broad range of development approaches rather than the experience of software production in a real-life setting. In this paper, we propose an innovative learning environment that integrates our undergraduate software-engineering course with an application course in client/server computing. Such an environment allows students to apply software methodologies. This paper presents detailed class schedules for both courses for a 16-week regular semester to implement real-world applications and analyses the benefits of such a learning environment. Not all students in the software-engineering course are taking the client/server computing course, and vice versa. Therefore, team organization and student assessments become complicated and are discussed in the paper.