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From: karenc@amadeus.TEK.COM (Karen Cate;6291502;92-734;LP=A;60sC)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Cynic's Guide to Software Engineering, part 4
Keywords: Software Engineering Education
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Date: 15 Apr 88 19:34:40 GMT
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In article <2677@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> neff@Shasta.stanford.edu (Randall Neff) writes:
>
>The key focus of a Masters program of software engineering should be an 
>apprenticeship working on a real, large software project, in all phases of
>the lifecycle myth.  I suggest that a complete software engineering programming
>environment be the continuous project for all of the students over the years.  
...
>It would be designed to be portable, run on several different hardware /os 
>platforms and would be given away to anyone asking.  It would go with every
>graduating student.  It would be treated just like a real software product from
>a real company, including support, new releases, bug fixes, manuals, training.
>The system would start out small, say just the database/configuration/version
>management; then be expanded with syntax directed editors, graphic editors,
>regression testing, reuse libraries, application generators, whatever the 
>current fad happens to be.
>
Sounds great.  Personally, I would be interested in a Masters of Software
Engineering.  The project I would like to work on would be some GOOD
software development tools.  What a great project for this purpose.  
Research could be done in the theory of the process of software development
as well as implementation.  Students would have a reason to take it with
them, and actually using something you wrote is one of the greatest 
learning tools ever.

Karen A. Cate
Tektronix Inc, Beaverton OR
tektronix!amadeus!karenc -OR- karenc@amadeus.LA.TEK.COM