NDLI: Models of designing: understanding software engineering education from the bottom up

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	McCracken, W.M.
Copyright Year	2002
Description	Author affiliation: Coll. of Comput., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA (McCracken, W.M.)
Abstract	We present a model of software designing that can be used to help understand what skills need to be developed by students of software engineering. Regardless of who, what or whether, if people are going to design software, it is imperative that educators understand what to teach students of software design. To teach it we must know what skills and knowledge are needed by students learning to design software. The paper touches on one part of developing the skill set, which is how those skills are cognitively constructed and used by students. We look at learning to design software as a staged developmental process and we examine the stages from the bottom up. We attempt to confirm our intuitive understandings of what software engineers need in an undergraduate program by examining verbal protocols of practicing designers and student designers. We develop a model of design knowledge and skill to uncover what students need to learn to be able to design software and use our protocols to determine if our model appropriately reflects the skills and knowledge of designers.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. Techn. Council on Software Eng. (TCSE)
Starting Page	55
Ending Page	63
File Size	272494
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769515150
ISSN	10930175
DOI	10.1109/CSEE.2002.995198
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-02-25
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software design Software engineering Design engineering Protocols Educational programs Problem-solving Educational technology Educational institutions Education Computer architecture
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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