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Learning by doing: Goals and experiences of two software engineering project courses

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In this paper, we describe two laboratory software engineering class series that are intended to teach the students ‘reflection-in-action.’ We offer the labs at undergraduate and graduate levels, and we present our experience and results from eight project quarters.

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 30332-0280, Atlanta, Georgia

    Melody Moore & Colin Potts

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Jorge L. Díaz-Herrera

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Moore, M., Potts, C. (1993). Learning by doing: Goals and experiences of two software engineering project courses. In: Díaz-Herrera, J.L. (eds) Software Engineering Education. CSEE 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017611

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