Addressing Software's Chronic Crisis in the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum

从一开始，软件产业就一直在危机中萎靡不振。学术计算机科学系在很大程度上没有尽到适当地教育和培养软件专业人员的责任，从而造成了这种情况。我们建议通过以下三个方面的努力来解决这个问题：在俄亥俄州立大学和西弗吉尼亚大学的本科计算机科学课程中创建并安装一个全面的、集成的四个学期的软件开发课程。本课程的基础是指导哲学，即软件是根据精心设计的可重用软件组件正确概念化和构建的。将开发一个由一组集成的软件工具组成的软件组合工作台。工作台将能够指导和支持学生和软件开发人员使用和应用软件开发课程中所教授的方法。建议的课程和工作台将通过以内容为导向、以表现为导向和以态度为导向的研究进行严格的评估。这项工作的核心将是为课程中的每一门课程和工作平台开发适当的纵向评价工具。这个项目的目标是创建一个能够产生软件专业人员的系统，这些专业人员对软件业所面临的技术问题有更大的认识和理解，并且具有可衡量的更好的软件设计和开发技能。

Since its inception, the software industry has languished in a perpetual state of crisis. Academic computer science departments have contributed to this by largely failing in their responsibility to appropriately educate and prepare software professionals. We propose to address this failure with the following three-pronged effort: A comprehensive and integrated four-semester software-development curriculum will be created and installed within the undergraduate computer science programs at The Ohio State University and at West Virginia University. Fundamental to this curriculum is the guiding philosophy that software is properly conceptualized and constructed in terms of carefully engineered reusable software components. A software composition workbench, consisting of an integrated set of software tools, will be developed. The workbench will be capable of guiding and supporting students and software developers in their use and application of the methodologies taught in the software development curriculum. The proposed curriculum and workbench will be rigorously evaluated through content-oriented, performance- oriented, and attitude-oriented studies. Central to this effort will be development of appropriate, longitudinal evaluation instruments for each of the courses in the curriculum and for the workbench. The goal of this project is to create a system capable of producing software professionals with greater awareness and understanding of the technical issues faced by the software industry, and with measurably better software design and development skills.