A discovery-based capstone experience

  • Authors:
  • John A. Trono

  • Affiliations:
  • Saint Michael's College, Colchester, VT

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Most computer science students must successfully complete several large software projects as part of their undergraduate course work. Many institutions offer a senior-level, capstone course that typically includes a semester long project that (hopefully) requires each student to consider all that they have learned before they begin. This paper presents a project that is not so "allencompassing", but it is one that can reward the student, who looks beyond the problem itself, with some interesting discoveries.