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Bringing real-world software development into the classroom: a proposed role for public software in computer science education

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A proposal is made for combining ongoing volunteer efforts to produce and freely distribute real-world, consumer-oriented software with the existing curricula in computer science. The differences between such an endeavor and currently ongoing free software efforts are described. The pedagogical advantages of working with and contributing to such an effort are explored. Potential enhancements to existing course work are discussed, as are some possible new avenues of instruction. The economic viability of such an enterprise is also briefly described.

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          cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
          ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 30, Issue 1
          Mar. 1998
          376 pages
          ISSN:0097-8418
          DOI:10.1145/274790
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          • cover image ACM Conferences
            SIGCSE '98: Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
            March 1998
            396 pages
            ISBN:0897919947
            DOI:10.1145/273133

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