International Journal of Education and Development using ICT

International Journal of Education and Development using ICT > Vol. 5, No. 3 (2009)

Impact of using agile practice for student software projects in computer science education

Indika U.S. Perera, University of Moratuwa

Abstract
Computer Science education is becoming a fundamental teaching area with the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development. It is a known fact that traditional educational and teaching methods have certain limitations for ever changing technology based and software & tools interactive courses such as teaching programming or software development. After years of been practiced in the industry the Agile software development process possesses standard characteristics of a process paradigm. However, it is rare to observe studies on Agile practice used in computer science education with its impact to student learning. This paper describes findings of such study conducted in a university education environment.

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