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Nightmare on Westwood Avenue: product development laboratory: success, failure, both, neither???

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Traditionally, computer software development courses have produced projects with small numbers of homogeneous users requiring limited maintenance and which run on a single platform as opposed to products which are distributed to large numbers of diverse users, run on multiple platforms, and which are upgraded and re-released many times. The NSF/ILI-IG grant with the university match provided funding to establish a software product development laboratory in an effort to provide students with the product development experience that many will need upon graduation.This paper discusses the concept for, the goals and subgoals of, and the first year's evaluation of the Product Development Laboratory.

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  1. SHAW91 Mary Shaw and James E. Tomayko, "Models for Undergraduate Project Courses in Software Engineering", Software Engineering Institute 1991 Conference on Software Engineering Education, pp. 33-72. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library

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        cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
        ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 28, Issue 1
        March 1996
        379 pages
        ISSN:0097-8418
        DOI:10.1145/236462
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          SIGCSE '96: Proceedings of the twenty-seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
          March 1996
          447 pages
          ISBN:089791757X
          DOI:10.1145/236452

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