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Model-driven paradigms: the evolution of a university course

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László Lengyel,

Gergely MezeiAuthors Info & Claims

EduSymp '12: Proceedings of the 8th edition of the Educators' Symposium

Pages 13 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/2425936.2425939

Published: 01 October 2012 Publication History

Abstract

There is a need to provide university courses and education materials focusing on the current, new generation of software design and development methodologies. These methodologies include both high-level modeling and automated, model-based software synthesis. In 2008, we created a new university course focused on Model-Driven Development. Based on the feedback from the students and our experiences, we have reworked the course material three times. In this paper, we present our initial thoughts, the evolution of the course and its final (current) form. We believe that in providing a detailed discussion on the evolution, the paper becomes more than a simple overview of a modeling course; it also gives a set of useful hints to avoid the dead ends and mistakes when creating such a course.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2460156.2460168
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2425936.2425937

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Altayeb BDamevski K(2013)Utilizing and enhancing software modeling environments to teach mobile application designJournal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/2460156.246016828:6(57-64)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2460156.2460168
Chiorean DCombemale B(2012)The 8th Educators' Symposium @ MODELS 2012Proceedings of the 8th edition of the Educators' Symposium10.1145/2425936.2425937(1-4)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2425936.2425937

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