Yes they can!: second-year student software development: a case study

  • Authors:
  • Ricardo Hoar

  • Affiliations:
  • Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper describes a summer software development project undertaken with second year computer science students. Despite the students unfamiliarity with website application development, structured query languages, php and subversion, successful outcomes were achieved and are described together with the software engineering principles, the challenges and conclusions.