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Teaching software engineering (SE) in our universities and colleges is crucial as a means to help offset the software crisis. This paper describes an evolutionary approach used at one university to address the problems of teaching software engineering. Issues of difficulty in teaching software engineering, the evolution of software engineering techniques and our specific evolutionary approaches to teaching software engineering are presented. The nature of our courses, projects and laboratories in the curriculum is examined. Suggestions are presented on enhancements to existing approaches to software engineering education techniques, with an emphasis on guidelines for projects.
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Lively, W., Sheppard, S. (1989). Accommodating the Software Engineering Evolution in Education. In: Fairley, R., Freeman, P. (eds) Issues in Software Engineering Education. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9614-7_26
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