Redesigning an undergraduate software engineering course for a large cohort

Claudia Iacob; Shamal Faily

doi:10.1145/3183377.3183381

Redesigning an undergraduate software engineering course for a large cohort

Claudia Iacob, Shamal Faily

School of Computing

Bournemouth University

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Teaching Software Engineering on an undergraduate programme is challenging, particularly when dealing with large numbers of students. On one hand, a strong understanding of software and good programming skills are prerequisites. On the other hand, the scale of the projects developed as part of undergraduate programmes do not always make the need for engineering obvious. Encouraging teamwork when students have little professional experience also adds to the level of complexity when delivering material. In this paper, we present a study on the redesign of a second year undergraduate course on Software Engineering for a large cohort.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	163-171
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-5660-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3183377.3183381
Publication status	Published - 27 May 2018
Event	40th International Conference on Software Engineering: ICSE 2018 - Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 27 May 2018 → 3 Jun 2018 https://www.icse2018.org/

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Conference	40th International Conference on Software Engineering
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Gothenburg
Period	27/05/18 → 3/06/18
Internet address	https://www.icse2018.org/

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Iacob, C & Faily, S 2018, Redesigning an undergraduate software engineering course for a large cohort. in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 163-171, 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, Gothenburg, Sweden, 27/05/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3183377.3183381

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