PSPSM in the Large Class

  • Authors:
  • David Carrington;Ben McEniery;Dan Johnston

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CSEET '01 Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper describes our experience teaching some elements of the Personal Software ProcessSM as part of a second programming course. A distinctive feature was the class size of more than 360 students. The goals were to help students develop good software development habits early, and to encourage them to see software development as a systematic discipline rather than a trial and error activity. The results indicate partial success with indicators for future improvement. We hope that other people will be able to build on our experience teaching the concepts of PSP to large groups of students.