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

解决本科计算机科学课程中软件的长期危机

• 批准号: 9555062
• 负责人: Timothy Long
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-07-01 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9555062&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Addressing; Software; Chronic; Crisis; Undergraduate

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.

自成立以来，软件行业一直在危机中苦苦挣扎。学术界的计算机科学系在很大程度上没有尽到适当教育和准备软件专业人员的责任，从而导致了这一点。我们建议通过以下三个方面的努力来解决这一失败：将创建一个全面和综合的四个学期的软件开发课程，并将其安装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。本课程的基础是指导思想，即根据精心设计的可重用软件组件适当地概念化和构建软件。将开发一个由一整套软件工具组成的软件合成工作台。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教授的方法。拟议的课程和工作台将通过以内容为导向、以绩效为导向和以态度为导向的研究进行严格评估。这项工作的核心将是为课程中的每一门课程和工作台开发适当的纵向评价工具。这个项目的目标是创建一个系统，能够培养出对软件行业面临的技术问题有更多认识和理解，并具有明显更好的软件设计和开发技能的软件专业人员。