Reinvigorating the software engineering curriculum with Jackson's methods and ideas

ABSTRACT

Because they are sound, original, and provide a needed critical perspective, Jackson's ideas and methods deserve to be incorporated into - and can invigorate - the software engineering curriculum.

REFERENCES

• 1: A more complete bibliography can be found by consulting Michael Jackson's Home Page at http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/jacksonma/ and Steve Ferg's Web Site of Jackson's Software Development Methods at http://www.ferg.org/jackson_methods/index.html.
• 2: John Cameron, JSP and JSD: The Jackson Approach to Software Development, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1989
• 3: M. A. Jackson, Principles of Program Design, Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, FL, 1975
• 4: Michael Jackson, Constructive Methods of Program Design, Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st European Cooperation in Informatics on ECI Conference 1976, p.236-262, August 09-12, 1976
• 5: D. Neel, Tools and Notions for Program Construction: An Advanced Course, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 1982
• 6: M. A Jackson, System development (Prentice-Hall International series in computer science), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1983
• 7: {Jackson} 1994 Problems, Descriptions and Objects; in OOIS'94: Proceedings of 1994 International Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems, pp25--35; Springer Verlag, 1994.
• 8: Michael Jackson, Software requirements & specifications: a lexicon of practice, principles and prejudices, ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., New York, NY, 1995
• 9: {Jackson} 1999 Problem Analysis Using Small Problem Frames. South African Computer Journal 22; Special Issue on WOFACS'98, pp47--60, 1999.
• 10: Michael Jackson, Problem frames: analyzing and structuring software development problems, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 2000
• 11: {Jackson} 2000a Michael Jackson; Problem Analysis and Structure; in Engineering Theories of Software Construction, Tony Hoare, Manfred Broy and Ralf Steinbruggen eds; Proceedings of NATO Summer School, Marktoberdorf, August 2000, pages 3--20; IOS Press, 2001
• 12: {Jackson} 2000b Michael Jackson; The Real World; in Millennial Perspectives in Computer Science; Jim Davies, Bill Roscoe, Jim Woodcock eds; Proceedings of the 1999 Oxford-Microsoft symposium in honour of Sir Antony Hoare, pages 157--173; Palgrave, 2000
• 13: {Jackson} 2000c The Origins of JSP and JSD: a Personal Recollection. IEEE Annals of Software Engineering Volume 22 Number 2, pages 61--63, 66, April-June 2000.
• 14: {Jackson} 2001 JSP in Perspective. sd&m Pioneers' Conference, Bonn, June 2001.
• 15: {Ourusoff 2003} Ourusoff, Nicholas. "Using Jackson Structured Programming (JSP) and Jackson Workbench to Teach Program Design". Proceedings of 2003 Informing Science and Information Technology Education, Pori, Finland, June 24--27, 2003.

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Keywords:
jackson structured programming, jackson system development, michael jackson, software engineering