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The Draw-Bot: A Project for Teaching Software Engineering (1998)
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@MISC{Computing98thedraw-bot:,
author = {Martin Mohrenschildt Computing and Martin V. Mohrenschildt},
title = {The Draw-Bot: A Project for Teaching Software Engineering},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
Wepresent a course project whichwas successfully used to teachsoftware design principles to third year computer engineering students. The goal of the project is to program a robot to trace a shortest path through a maze. The students, organized in teams of #ve, have to follow the classical steps of software development and prepare interface, design and testing documents. Having a project that requires controlling a device to complete a clear task generates enthusiasm in the students and helps them to understand the principles taught in the course. 1 Introduction Computer Engineering 3VA3 is a third year course in software design taught at McMaster University. A key element of this course is an opportunitytoapply software engineering principles suchassoftware speci#cation, design and testing to systems with safety-critical and realtime requirements in a concrete project. In previous years pure software projects i.e., projects that did not involve anyhardware other than the computer, w...
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software engineering software development shortest path previous year speci cation classical step opportunitytoapply software engineering principle realtime requirement concrete project design principle course project key element third year computer engineering student mcmaster university software project clear task generates third year course software design taught introduction computer engineering
