Abstract :
For software engineering (SE) and computer science (CS) programs to deliver on their promises, they must go beyond teaching students about principles, processes, models, and strategies and offer them realistic, practical experience as well. Although industry has been pressing to increase the emphasis on practical aspects, many CS programs continue to give students relatively simple problems focused on selected computing and software concepts and theories. Open source software offers CS and SE educators an opportunity to give their students practical, hands-on software engineering experience
Keywords :
computer science education; public domain software; software engineering; teaching; computer science program teaching; open source software engineering tools; software engineering program teaching; Computer industry; Computer science; Curriculum development; Education; Educational institutions; Open source software; Pressing; Programming; Software engineering; Software tools; computer science education; reusable software; software engineering process; software engineering programming environments and construction tools;
