"Design-n-Code Fests" as Capstone Projects for an Object-Oriented Software Development Course.

When students in our upper division software engineering courses at Utah Stat University expressed lack of confidence in their understanding of how all pieces of software development fit together, we chose to offer a one-day “Design-n-Code Fest” workshop. The workshop would take the students through key parts of the development process for a software project (i.e. from systems analysis through implementation and unit testing). This paper describes our experiences with three such workshops, what actually happened, what we learned, and what we plan to do for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]