Re: Porting ADA source

["Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>]

"Ronald Price" <softcrafts@aol.com> wrote in message
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> How do we teach these maintenace concepts except by OJT?

If I were designing a Software Engineering curriculum for a University, here
is how I would drive this point home.

I would have the Freshmen complete one large project, emphasising that this
project should be as maintainable as possible. These projects would then be
preserved somewhere for the next few years.

In their Junior year, I would then assign the students the task of going
back to their Freshman projects and make a software change, say add a new
feature. We will gladly provide them with all the materials they handed in
two years ago.

Hopefully, this exercise would show them the folly of "quick and dirty".