NDLI: Problems and Programmers: an educational software engineering card game

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Baker, A. Navarro, E.O. van der Hoek, A.
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA (Baker, A.; Navarro, E.O.; van der Hoek, A.)
Abstract	Problems and Programmers is an educational card game that we have developed to help teach software engineering. It is based on the observation that students, in a typical software engineering course, gain little practical experience in issues regarding the software process. The underlying problem is time: any course faces the practical constraint of only being able to involve students in at most a few small software development projects. Problems and Programmers overcomes this limitation by providing a simulation of the software process. In playing the game, students become aware of not only general lessons, such as the fact that they must continuously make tradeoffs among multiple potential next steps, but also specific issues such as the fact that inspections improve the quality of code but delay its delivery time. We describe game play of Problems and Programmers, discuss its underlying design, and report on the results of a small experiment in which twenty-eight students played the game.
Starting Page	614
Ending Page	619
File Size	354595
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	076951877X
ISSN	02705257
DOI	10.1109/ICSE.2003.1201245
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-05-03
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software engineering Programming profession Educational programs Computer science Inspection Delay effects Software testing Employment Computational modeling Computer simulation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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