Gary Ford

SEI Report on Graduate Software Engineering Education

A report on the SEIs 1988 Curriculum Design Workshop is provided, along with descriptions of the six core courses for a Master of Software Engineering degree program that were designed at that workshop. A summary of current SEI recommendations for such a degree program is also included.

A Master of software engineering curriculum: recommendations from the Software Engineering Institute

The authors present a structure of the software engineering discipline as a first step toward identifying its content and boundaries. They recommend a core Masters-level curriculum in software engineering. They discuss the future of software engineering education.<<ETX>>

Software Engineering Education.

Abstract : The Software Engineering Institute is a federally funded research and development center operated by Carnegie-Mellon University. Its principal responsibility is to accelerate the reduction to practice of modern software engineering techniques and methods. Included in this responsibility are the identification, assessment, development, dissemination, and insertion of promising methods, techniques, and tools to support software engineering. Keywords: Teachers, Students, Computer Program Documentation, Computer Communications, Syntax, Analysis, Batch Processing, Maintainability.

A bibliography of broad-coverage software engineering textbooks

An extension to standard Pascal which includes the kind of Internet primitives necessary to support meaningfu l programming projects for a networks course is described . The new language, Pascal with Internet Primitives (PIP) , is a simple modification of the standard Pascal languag e providing interprocess communication library routines . The PIP user requests and uses networked services which are presented as Pascal-style files . Primitives calls are handled transparently by a compiler preprocessor and a n extended run-time environment . This simple file-base d extension allows the student to immediately write pedagogically useful programs using pre-planned Interne t facilities . More complex assignments, such as the development of network servers, protocols, et cetera, are possible with increased awareness of primitive function calls . Increased awareness can come about gradually as a part of the course and occurs within the syntactically familia r setting of Pascal . This approach allows presentation o f programming essentials as meaningful excursions, rathe r than as a separate topic . Design, implementation, and us e of the system are described .

The Software Engineering Institute (panel session)

The Software Engineering Institute is a new Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), sponsored by the Department of Defense, and operated by Carnegie-Mellon University. The mission of the Software Engineering Institute is to serve the public interest by establishing the standard of excellence for the art and practice of software engineering and by accelerating the transition of software technology.