From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,abd120a1d5231d28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English) Subject: Re: Looking for a good Ada 95 book Date: 1996/12/02 Message-ID: <57v3kc$ois@saturn.brighton.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 201911025 distribution: world references: <57noj5$j8e$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <57ul1oINNkae@maz4.sma.ch> organization: University of Brighton newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jim Carr writes: > Has anyone experimented with a series of projects where a student is > required to use a routine from project N-1 that was written by another > student, to emphasize the need for clarity and documentation?" At Brighton we used to run an exercise for our 2nd year students which we called a "Software Hut" (i.e a small software house) where at the end of phase 1 each group had to market their product to the other groups for use in phase 2. Worked quite well as I recall, although I was never directly involved; it got them doing presentations, sales pitches and advertising, and also gave them an insight into product evaluation. There was an article in the Computer Bulletin about it a few years back (sorry, but I don't have the details). --------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | fax: (+44) 1273 642405 University of Brighton | ---------------------------------------------------------------