Title
`Slick Systems' and `Happy Hackers': experience with group projects at UCL
Abstract
The authors describe their experience of group projects in the practical teaching of software engineering over a period of eight years. Their initial projects tended to be too challenging, and few groups managed to produce complete pieces of work. They have deliberately simplified tasks slightly, resulting in less frustration and better projects, so that students reap more benefits. Students learn about division of work, co-operation with others and scheduling of time. As students are required to provide assessments of other projects and of the contributions of members of their own project group, they are also encouraged to develop critical faculties. The staff effort involved in this method of teaching compares quite reasonably with traditional lectures
Year
DOI
Venue
1993
10.1049/sej.1993.0018
Software Engineering Journal
Field
DocType
Volume
Software Engineering Process Group,Systems engineering,Computer science,Software project management,Hacker,Teaching method,Division of work,Team software process,Social software engineering
Journal
8
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0268-6961
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.89
4
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nigel Chapman120.89
Maria Fox21776124.37
Elpida Keravnou320.89
Matthew Lee420.89
Mark Levene51272252.84
Derek Long61717116.15
P. Rounce7122.19
Ray Offen8574.75
Paul Samet920.89
Russel L. Winder10479.98