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Sharing courses: the CS & IT capstone experience

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This paper provides a comparison of the curricular recommendations for IT and a CS course in software engineering, including the specific topics covered in a recent class. The evolution of the semester project for this class, a web-based interface to a multimedia database for instructors and students, created in part by end users, is described and correlations are drawn to the IT curriculum recommendations. The course is proposed as appropriate, in general, as an elective in the IT curriculum that serves as a companion to the IT capstone.

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SIGITE '08: Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education
October 2008
280 pages
ISBN:9781605583297
DOI:10.1145/1414558
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