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Realism, style, and design: Packing it into a constrained course

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Although the importance of providing realistic educational experiences involving the design of software systems has been recognized in many undergraduate curricula, it is difficult to consistently do so. With the constraints of an existing curricula and a small amount of class time a course has been developed that provides a rich experience in software design, including the critical aspects of group work and programming and documentation style. The course, its goals, and main features are described and analyzed. Experience with the course is reported and the problem of evaluating such a course is discussed.

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      cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
      ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 8, Issue 1
      Proceedings of the SIGCSE-SIGCUE joint symposium on Computer science education
      February 1976
      399 pages
      ISSN:0097-8418
      DOI:10.1145/952989
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        SIGCSE '76: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE-SIGCUE technical symposium on Computer science and education
        February 1976
        403 pages
        ISBN:9781450374125
        DOI:10.1145/800107

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