Tag: Curtin University
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Teaching SE: code as design
Software engineering lecturers have some misconceptions to grapple with — students’ certainly, but also our own. One is this: we have tried to carve out an unambiguous [1]Well, sort of. We occasionally pay lip service to the concept of an overlap. distinction between software design and software implementation. In a previous post, I discussed a 2nd-year unit that historically…
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Teaching SE: from UML to Patterns
In teaching software engineering at Curtin Uni, we have long had a 2nd-year unit that dealt principally with the grandiosely-named Unified Modelling Language (UML), that diagrammatic language that promised to be software’s answer to the technical drawings of other engineering disciplines. I recall it as a student, when the various UML notations (each one allowing you…
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To be a male feminist
I haven’t ranted in a rather long time, so here goes. A (male) friend of mine voiced an opinion recently that, surely, everyone ought to be a feminist. At least, I shall rephrase slightly in deference to those with the greatest experience on the subject, everyone ought to aspire to feminism. It is a perspective, after all, not…
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Where it begins
The Curtin University Student Guild elections have been under way for the last three days, and campaigning for many days before that. Two factions hold sway: Left Action, with its uncompromisingly red posters supporting a range of social justice and funding issues, and Unity, with its simple orange posters endorsing better WiFi and upgraded cafe facilities. I…