Integrating Large-Scale Group Projects and
Software Engineering Approaches for
Early Computer Science Courses
June 2005
M. Brian Blake, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
The utilization of large-scale group projects in early
computer science courses has been readily accepted in academia.
In these types of projects, students are given a specific portion of
a large programming problem to design and develop. Ultimately,
the consolidation of all of the independent student projects integrates
to form the solution for the large-scale project. Although
many studies report on the experience of executing a semester-long
course of this nature, course experience at Georgetown University,
Washington, DC, shows the benefits of embedding a large-scale
project that comprises just a segment of the course (three to four
weeks). The success of these types of courses requires an effective
process for creating the specific large-scale project. In this paper,
an effective process for large-scale group project course development
is applied to the second computer science course at Georgetown
University.
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