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Teaching software engineering using open source software

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Guangming XingAuthors Info & Claims

ACMSE '10: Proceedings of the 48th annual ACM Southeast Conference

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1900008.1900085

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This paper describes our experience of using open source software systems in teaching a graduate level software engineering course. The motivation of this course, the course structure, the assessment, and the outcomes are discussed. The comparative results using different approaches are also presented.

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