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Software engineering for seniors—overcoming the administrative fears

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A five-year old program of a two-semester course sequence in software engineering is described. Strategies for handling four common faculty administrative concerns of teaching a project centered software engineering course are presented. The methods and experiences described are the results of a program now in its fifth year. The program is centered around industry sponsored projects which computer science seniors take from design to implementation during the school year.

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        cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
        ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 31, Issue 1
        March 1999
        370 pages
        ISSN:0097-8418
        DOI:10.1145/384266
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        • cover image ACM Conferences
          SIGCSE '99: The proceedings of the thirtieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
          March 1999
          383 pages
          ISBN:1581130856
          DOI:10.1145/299649
          • Chairmen:
          • Jane Prey,
          • Bob Noonan

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