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A Mock Software Company: For Teaching Software Engineering (Cse 455) Course, Arturo Concepcion
A Mock Software Company: For Teaching Software Engineering (Cse 455) Course, Arturo Concepcion
Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy
This is a novel way of teaching software engineering as an upper-division course for senior computer science students. Teach the class as a mock software company where students play a role in the “software company” such as project managers, assistant project managers, team leads, software engineers, software designers, UI designers, QA engineers, etc. Then to make a realistic work environment, solicit software projects from real clients, not toy software projects that the instructors think of. It has been proven, pedagogically, that project-based learning is one of the most effective way of teaching. There are no quizzes, no mid-terms, and no …