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，软件行业一直处于永久危机状态。 学术计算机科学部门为此做出了贡献，这在很大程度上不承担适当教育和准备软件专业人员的责任。我们建议通过以下三管齐下的努力解决这一失败：将在俄亥俄州立大学和西弗吉尼亚大学的本科计算机科学计划中创建并安装全面且综合的四学期软件开发课程。该课程的基础是指导理念，即软件是根据精心设计的可重复使用的软件组件正确概念化和构建的。将开发由一组集成的软件工具组成的软件组成工作台。 Workbench将能够指导和支持学生和软件开发人员的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面向内容的，面向态度的研究进行严格评估。这项工作的核心将是为课程和工作台的每个课程开发适当的纵向评估工具。 该项目的目的是创建一个能够生产具有更高认识和了解软件行业技​​术问题的软件专业人员的系统，并具有更好的软件设计和开发技能。