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A senior design course for computer science
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Proceedings of the seventeenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education table of contents
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Pages: 131 - 133  
Year of Publication: 1986
ISBN:0-89791-178-4
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Author
David Ballew  South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
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SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

This paper describes a Senior Team Project Design course required of all Computer Science majors at our institution. The course is somewhat unique in that the students are divided into teams, all working on some aspect of the same problem. Thus, there is an emphasis on communication between teams, an emphasis on ensuring that the design of the various subteams interface, and an emphasis on learning to work as part of a group. The team concept described is an attempt to simulate an actual industrial or commercial environment within the structure and safety of the college classroom. To the students' surprise, the goal is not to implement a program (although we do that) but to illustrate the need for clear design techniques, the need for proper testing procedures and, above all, the need for precise communication.




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Put on your software engineering hat. Imagine a one-semester programming project given to a relatively large class. Divide the project into three parts: I/O system, computation, and file structures. Divide the class into four teams (Red, White,   more...