In computer science curricula the two areas programming and software engineering are usually separated. In programming students learn an object oriented language and then deepen t...
In this paper, we report on our experience in designing and delivering two new software design courses in the Informatics major at UC Irvine. When the major was created in 2004, i...
In this paper, we establish the need (based on literature and anecdotal evidence) for an infrastructure for CS1 courses to visually support problem solving from the initial proble...
Mohammad H. N. Tabrizi, Carol B. Collins, E. Ozan,...
High cohesion, or module strength, indicates that a system has been well partitioned into components which have strong internal relationships. An understanding of cohesion is an i...
Software engineering is hampered by the fact that software systems quickly become so complex that they are hard to understand, evolve and maintain. Closer integration of code and ...