Contemporary Canonical Software Courses

计算机科学（31）本项目开发新的学习材料沿着教学包，系统地介绍两个重要的规范软件系统Firefox和Apache背后的关键技术和软件设计概念。这两个系统代表了现代规范的分布式、多平台和多语言系统。它们的内部结构是高度可扩展和灵活的架构，有助于它们作为开源项目的生存。这两个系统都受到了极大的关注，研究人员已经研究了它们的内部工作原理。该项目将把包括Firefox和Apache架构在内的关键知识组织成幻灯片，并开发一个教学工具，一个结构导航器，以说明这些规范系统的关键功能，架构结构和源代码模块之间的关系。 实验作业要求学生为移动的设备构建轻量级的网络浏览器和网络服务器。幻灯片、结构导航器和实验室构成了教学包。利用该教学包的课程在德雷克塞尔大学的本科计算机科学和软件工程programmes.The项目有一个潜在的推进现代软件概念和技术的教育，正式引入成熟的关键技术到本科课程，并组织有关这些规范系统的设计，架构和技术的知识系统成一个像样的形式。预期成果包括改编其他大学和学院的计算机科学或软件工程课程在本项目中开发的教学包。该教学包被扩展并集成到计算机科学教科书，工具和示范软件中，可以广泛传播。

Computer Science (31) This project develops new learning materials along with a teaching package that systematically introduce the key technology and software design concepts behind the two important canonical software systems, Firefox and Apache. These two systems represent modern canonical distributed, multi-platform, and multi-language systems. Their internal structures exemplify highly expansible and flexible architecture that contribute to their survival as open source projects. Both systems have received significant attention and their inner workings have been studied by researchers. The project is going to organize the key knowledge, including Firefox and Apache architectures, into slides and to develop a teaching tool, a structural navigator, to illustrate the relationships among the key features, architectural structures, and source code modules of these canonical systems. Lab assignments require students to build lightweight web browsers and web servers for mobile devices. The slides, the structural navigator and the labs constitute the teaching package. Classes making the use of the teaching package are offered in the Drexel University undergraduate Computer Science and Software Engineering programs.The project has a potential to advance the education of modern software concepts and technologies by formally introducing matured key technologies into undergraduate curricula, and organizing the knowledge about the design, architecture, and technology of these canonical systems systematically into a presentable form. Anticipated outcomes include adaptation of the teaching package developed in this project by the computer science or software engineering curricula at other universities and colleges. The teaching package is extended and integrated into computer science textbooks, tools, and exemplary software that can be disseminated broadly.