Giving computer science students real-world experience

  • Authors:

  • E. E. Villarreal;Dennis Butler

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer Science Department, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA;Computer Science Department, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA

  • Venue:
  • SIGCSE '98 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Class assignments should have more relevance to the real world. There is not enough time to have a realistic project in a class, but a realistic project would give the students a taste of the real world.We attacked this problem by merging two classes, Introduction to Database Systems and Software Engineering I, thereby allowing enough time for a more meaningful final project. We chose to use a loosely coupled approach to merging our classes.