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A Project-Based Software Course: The Myth of the “Real-World”

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Issues in Software Engineering Education

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We discuss an approach to project-based software engineering courses. Considerations based on experience illustrate the myth of the real-world environment to project-based course in university. Characteristics of real projects are outlined and conditions that make them applicable are stressed. The experience with a real project-based course is briefly described.

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  1. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada

    Dr. Pierre-N. Robillard

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  1. School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA

    Richard Fairley

  2. Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92717, USA

    Peter Freeman

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Robillard, PN. (1989). A Project-Based Software Course: The Myth of the “Real-World”. In: Fairley, R., Freeman, P. (eds) Issues in Software Engineering Education. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9614-7_22

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