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- From: tomg@cc.gatech.edu (Tom Gale)
- Subject: Re: Why is the Software Process NOT working
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.005340.18251@cc.gatech.edu>
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- Organization: College of Computing
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:53:40 GMT
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- I may have been slightly misunderstood (my own fault). I never said
- that universities *cannot* teach students good SWE techniques or teach
- them about process/quality issues. I just disagree with what was
- implied by the original poster's statement to the effect that
- engineers "forget everything they learned at the university". There
- are certainly examples of good SWE curriculums and in some cases even
- degrees awarded in software engineering (soon to be the case here at
- Georgia Tech).
-
- What I was trying to get across was that it seems like universities
- don't feel that teaching students how to produce high quality code is
- a *requirement* (i.e. sufficient SWE training is not required for
- graduation). Student's who elect to take SWE coures may receive good
- training, but if the schools don't require this training, the majority
- of students will not seek it out on their own, thus the majority of
- students who enter industry will not have this background.
-
- Also, I don't put the blame for the software crisis or the problems
- with the software process on universities. I just think that they
- might be able to contribute a bit more to the solution to these
- problems by recognizing the importance of formal SWE education and not
- just traditional CS education.
-
- T.G.
-
-
- -Tom Gale (tomg@cc.gatech.edu)
-