billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) (11/10/89)
From bryan@sierra.Stanford.EDU (Doug L. Bryan): > - there aren't many decent, easy to obtain, public-domain > 60,000 line systems for educators to chose from, and Actually, the CPSC 472 semester project for this semester (here at Clemson) is being done as part of the development of such a system, in conjunction with the Software Engineering Institute. It will be made available to software engineering educators in general upon completion. > - students hate it (yes, pleasing the customer is a part > of even education). Where? Where? Where? (maybe 1/3 :-)...) > Disclaimer: I work for a university. I have tried to teach software > engineering at this university. I once gave an assignment like the > one being discussed and the students hated it. My course was > canceled. It's very difficult to do this type of project when you're trying to "go where no local educator has gone before"; this is one reason for the SEI's development of this particular software engineering project. Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu