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From: peterd@cs.washington.edu (Peter C. Damron)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Maintenance
Summary: it is done here
Message-ID: <9757@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 89 20:23:20 GMT
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Reply-To: peterd@june.cs.washington.edu.cs.washington.edu (Peter C. Damron)
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In article <78584@linus.UUCP> mitchell@community-chest.UUCP (George Mitchell) writes:
>In article <11064@cbnews.ATT.COM> kww@cbnews.ATT.COM
>(Kevin W. Wall,55212,cb,1B329,6148604775) writes:       `Just once I'd
>`like to see a homework assignment in some CS course be something like
>`
>`	"add features X and Y to this 60,000 software system (which the
>`	students have never seen before) and turn it in next week".
>
>Would someone (or more) please address why this is not done.

It is done here at Univ. of Washington.  The students in the undergraduate
compiler class are given a working compiler and add features to it.
Of course, the compiler they are given is only about 50-70 pages of code
and is well modularized, so it is a managable size to learn in a couple weeks.

Just thought you'd like to know,
Peter.

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Peter C. Damron
Dept. of Computer Science, FR-35
University of Washington
Seattle, WA  98195

peterd@cs.washington.edu
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