Using Live-Thru Case Histories to Motivate and Teach Software Engineering to Computer Science Students

软件工程（34）我们设计了一种新颖的教学方法，实时案例历史，用于激励和教授软件工程。计算机科学专业的学生通常对学习技术（技术的现状）感到兴奋，但对其关键的必要辅助，软件开发过程（各种称为软件工程、实践状态或最佳实践）不感兴趣。我们的方法使计算机科学专业的本科生认识到，如果没有适当的欣赏和使用实践状态的能力，他们很可能会失败，不是在他们的课程作业中，而是在他们计划将他们的职业生涯奉献给现实世界的软件开发项目中。我们在高级项目/软件工程课程中进行了试点研究，并取得并发表了令人鼓舞的结果。一位阅读了我们的研究结果的出版商主动与我们联系，要求我们开发更多的实时案例历史材料。罗格斯大学、新泽西理工学院、密歇根大学迪尔伯恩分校和马里兰大学学院的同事们同意使用Live-Thru案例历史。我们的团队成员包括：at&t的前副总裁，拥有35年的执行和管理工业和政府软件开发的经验；拥有27年教授计算机科学、执行和监督由NSF、DOE和IBM研究院等组织赞助的研究经验的技术研究员；心理学家，其专长是发展和评估教育计划；政治学家的专长包括基于网络的结果评估以及调查的设计和分析。

Software Engineering (34)We have devised a novel pedagogic methodology, Live-Thru Case Histories, for motivating and teaching Software Engineering. Computer Science students are often excited about learning technology (State of the Art), but uninterested in its critically-necessary adjunct, software development process (variously known as Software Engineering, State of the Practice, or Best Practice). Our methodology brings undergraduate Computer Science students to the realization that without an appropriate appreciation for and facility in using State of the Practice, they are likely to fail, not in their course work, but in the real-world software development projects to which they are planning to devote their careers. We have conducted a pilot study in a Senior Project/Software Engineering course, and have obtained, and published, encouraging results. A publisher who read our results has approached us, unsolicited, with a request to develop additional Live-Through Case History materials. Colleagues at Rutgers, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Michigan Dearborn and University of Maryland University College have agreed to use Live-Thru Case Histories. Members of our team include: a former Vice President of AT&T with thirty-five years of experience performing and managing industrial and governmental software development; a technology researcher with twenty-seven years experience teaching computer science and performing and supervising research sponsored by such organizations as NSF, DOE, and IBM Research; a psychologist whose specialty is the development and assessment of educational programs; and a political scientist whose specialties include web-based outcomes assessment and the design and analysis of surveys.