Teaching undergraduate software design in a liberal arts environment using RoboCup

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Teaching undergraduate software design in a liberal arts environment using RoboCup

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Annual Joint Conference Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education table of contents

Thessaloniki, Greece

SESSION: Introductory CS for non-majors table of contents

Pages: 114 - 118

Year of Publication: 2003

ISBN:1-58113-672-2

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Timothy Huang	Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Frank Swenton	Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

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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

Most large research universities include a software design or software development course as a required or elective component of an undergraduate computer science major. For various reasons, some institutions, including many liberal arts colleges and primarily undergraduate institutions, do not. In this paper, we present a software design course, tailored to undergraduate computer science students within a liberal arts environment, based on the RoboCup soccer simulation platform. We describe the course curriculum and outline its goals, which student evaluations suggest it achieved. We also outline the features of our "NewKrislet" soccer player, which provides an elementary but sufficiently functional entry point to Robocup client design.

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