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A workbench for project oriented software engineering courses

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Leslie J. Waguespack, Jr.,

David F. HassAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 16, Issue 1

Pages 137 - 145

https://doi.org/10.1145/952980.808638

Published: 01 January 1984 Publication History

Abstract

We present the Computer Science Scholar's Workbench, a tool kit written in Pascal suitable for research and teaching. It has advantages over contemporary workbenches, UNIX and INTERLISP: a host to support the tool kit costs less than $3,000, the tools are free-available in source from publications, and the tools are written in Pascal which is widely used in academic environments. We discuss a) course requirements and problems unique to project oriented software engineering classes, b) the tools we've chosen for the workbench, and c) how they may be used to ameliorate or solve many of the problems. We report our experience using the workbench and evaluate it in terms of cost, performance, portability, extensibility, and effectiveness.

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A workbench for project oriented software engineering courses
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 16, Issue 1

Proceedings of the 15th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

February 1984

235 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/952980

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SIGCSE '84: Proceedings of the fifteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
January 1984
272 pages
ISBN:0897911261
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