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The SEI education program: the challenge of teaching future software engineers

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 32 , Issue 5 (May 1989) table of contents

Pages: 594 - 605

Year of Publication: 1989

ISSN:0001-0782

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N. E. Gibbs

Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

As the technical foundations of software production emerge, software engineers run the risk of obsolescence—now.

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	Gary Perlman, Teaching user interface development to software engineering and computer science majors, ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, v.22 n.1, p.61-66, Jul. 1990
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
Subjects: Computer science education

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

K. Computing Milieux
K.7 THE COMPUTING PROFESSION

General Terms:
Management

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The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is funded by the Department of Defense at Carnegie-Mellon University. Its education program aims to increase the number of qualified software engineers by helping colleges and universities to improve thei more...

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