ICSE 2024
Fri 12 - Sun 21 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
Fri 19 Apr 2024 12:00 - 12:15 at Luis de Freitas Branco - Human and Social 6 Chair(s): Sarah Fakhoury

We report on our successful experience teaching the theory and practice of software engineering to ~150 undergraduate students majoring primarily in computer science. These students know how to write code, but not how to engineer software products. We found that teaching theory in parallel with practice was too late for students to apply their newfound knowledge, and thus chose to teach sequentially instead.

Our courses focus on interactivity and problem-solving, with exams that ask open-ended design and programming questions, yet remain scalable to over a hundred students with no obvious bottleneck. The sequential nature of our teaching enabled us to iterate on the theory course quickly based on results from the practice course.

Fri 19 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
11:00
15m
Talk
How Are Paid and Volunteer Open Source Developers Different? A Study of the Rust Project
Research Track
Yuxia Zhang Beijing Institute of Technology, Mian Qin Beijing Institute of Technology, Klaas-Jan Stol Lero; University College Cork; SINTEF Digital , Minghui Zhou Peking University, Hui Liu Beijing Institute of Technology
Pre-print
11:15
15m
Talk
Barriers for Students During Code Change Comprehension
Research Track
Justin Middleton North Carolina State University, John-Paul Ore North Carolina State University, Kathryn Stolee North Carolina State University
11:30
15m
Talk
SERGE – Serious Game for the Education of Risk Management in Software Project Management
Software Engineering Education and Training
Giusy Annunziata University of Salerno, Stefano Lambiase University of Salerno, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno, Filomena Ferrucci University of Salerno
Pre-print
11:45
15m
Talk
Equitable Student Collaboration in Pair Programming
Software Engineering Education and Training
Isabella Graßl University of Passau, Gordon Fraser University of Passau
12:00
15m
Talk
Scalable Teaching of Software Engineering Theory and Practice: An Experience Report
Software Engineering Education and Training
12:15
7m
Talk
Relationship Between Diversity of Collaborative Group Members’ Race and Ethnicity and the Frequency of their Collaborative Contributions in GitHub
Journal-first Papers
Sheik Shameer University of Waterloo, Gema Rodríguez-Pérez University of British Columbia (UBC), Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo
12:22
7m
Talk
Does Code Review Speed Matter for Practitioners?
Journal-first Papers
Gunnar Kudrjavets Amazon Web Services, USA, Ayushi Rastogi University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Link to publication DOI Pre-print