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Call for Papers -
ECOOP2003 - Workshop on Patterns in Teaching Software Development

To: ecoop-info@ecoop.org
Subject: CfP - ECOOP 2003 Workshop #14
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:12:58 +0100
From: =?utf-8?Q?Angster_Erzs=C3=A9bet?= <angster@szamalk.hu>

ECOOP 2003 - Workshop #14
Call for Position Statements

Patterns in Teaching Software Development

Abstract

The goal of this one-day workshop is to discuss ideas on what and how to teach
Software Development. Organizers would like to focus on practice and are looking
for fresh ideas.
Participants are encouraged to submit a small but concrete project (documentation
and the running application) developed by the students. Based on the project,
workshop presenters are encouraged to submit a paper including the following:
- Project's teaching environment, such as type of exercise, required
  knowledge (pre-conditions), time to solve, teamwork etc.
- Main points you teach and expect your students to do when developing a system
- Important teaching areas, such as: Design; Languages; Environments;
  Frameworks; Patterns; WEB-based applications; Large and distributed systems;
  Methodologies, including agile methodologies ...
- Pedagogy: How to teach; When and how to introduce topics; Teamwork ...
- Feedback from industry ...

The organizers are interested in even untried ideas that you might like
feedback on and that you would like to see get some additional exposure.
Workshop participant's material will be put on the web prior to the workshop.
In the workshop we will discuss these practical problems and the participants
will draw conclusions.

Questions to be answered on the workshop

- What is more important? Teaching the most accurate technology or giving a sound basis?
- How much algorithm and design should we teach?
- What concepts and methodologies should we teach?
- What pedagogy works for which topics?
- What are the best environments/languages/frameworks to use?

Attendee background

Organizers seek both university and industrial educators who teach Software Development.
We seek those with tested or untested ideas. If you have something that works in your
environment, can it be made to work generally? Do you have some idea that crosses boundaries
(university/industry, old/new, art/science, …) and is therefore especially interesting?

Submission details

The workshop provides a forum for about three 40 minutes and seven 20 minutes presentation
that are selected by the organizers. Participants are expected to read and judge the
selected submissions before the workshop in order to make workshop time more profitable.
Papers will be available on the workshop's website.
Workshop proposals should be electronically sent in HTML or PDF format.
Each submission should consist
- Data: author(s) name, postal address, telephone number, email address, and a short
  biography (2-3 sentences)
- Paper: 3-10 pages
- Documentation of the sample project (whole or part)
- Running application (recommended, but not compulsory)
Submission address: angster@szamalk.hu

Publication details

Abstracts of accepted contributions will be published in the ECOOP'2003 Workshop Reader
together with a report on the workshop.

Important dates

- Call for papers: February 5, 2003
- Submission of position papers due: Preferred: May 5, 2003; Final: May, 12, 2003.
- Notification of acceptance: May 17, 2003
- Workshop: Tuesday, July 22, 2003

Workshop organizers

- (Contact person) Erzsebet Angster <angster@szamalk.hu> Dennis Gabor College, Hungary
- Joe Bergin <berginf@pace.edu> Pace University, USA
- Marianna Sipos <sipos@szamalk.hu> Dennis Gabor College, Hungary

Workshop web page

Additional information can be found on the workshop web page:
http://www.gdf.hu/progtanszek/angster/ecoop03

To the Ada-Belgium home page.

Last update: 2003/03/18.