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

自诞生以来，软件行业一直处于危机状态。 学术计算机科学部门在很大程度上未能履行适当教育和准备软件专业人员的责任。我们建议解决这个问题，以下三管齐下的努力：一个全面的和综合的四学期的软件开发课程将创建和安装在本科计算机科学课程在俄亥俄州州立大学和西弗吉尼亚大学。本课程的基础是指导思想，即软件是正确的概念化和精心设计的可重用软件组件的构建。将开发一个由一套集成的软件工具组成的软件组合工作台。该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论。 拟议的课程和工作台将通过内容导向，绩效导向和态度导向的研究进行严格的评估。这项工作的核心是为课程表中的每一门课程和工作台制定适当的纵向评价工具。 该项目的目标是建立一个系统，能够产生软件专业人员，更好地认识和理解软件行业面临的技术问题，并具有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.