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Programming-in-the large versus programming-in-the-small
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Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins
Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins
Penumbra: an Eclipse plugin for introductory programming
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Official Eclipse 3.0 Faq (Eclipse Series)
Official Eclipse 3.0 Faq (Eclipse Series)
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Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java(TM) Applications
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Communications of the ACM - Next-generation cyber forensics
Chirp on crickets: teaching compilers using an embedded robot controller
Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
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The recent report by the ACM Job Migration Task Force points to the immediate need to teach "programming-in-the-large", the skills to work with and develop large and complex production-grade software and systems, so young computing professionals can stay competitive in the face of IT globalization and offshoring of software [4, 13]. However, current computer science curricula are inadequate to prepare college graduates to meet the reality of computing. Most course projects fall into the "programming-in-the-small" mode, in which students implement small, isolated projects to explore the course subject matter and with little emphasis on how the smaller pieces can be integrated to build sophisticated larger scale systems.This paper presents a modern IDE-based approach to address this inadequacy. We develop RobotStudio --- an extensible framework for building IDEs targeting a simple yet versatile educational robot platform. Student projects are implemented as plugin modules of RobotStudio and, when put together, they form a comprehensive IDE for programming the robotic environment.This paper describes the architecture of the RobotStudio framework, its extension mechanisms, and the teaching practice of using RobotStudio in an introductory compiler construction class to illustrate "programming-in-the-large" principles.