A practical approach for teaching model driven software development: A plea for the 'from scratch Approach'

摘要

This paper proposes a didactic approach to teaching model-driven software development (MDSD). The main idea is to convey the underlying concepts instead of using a concrete tool or presenting a purely theoretical approach. This goal is to be achieved by the development of a simple, but fully functional code generator. The entire process chain, from graphical modeling to actual code generation, is run through twice. In a first run from back to front to present the main concepts of a code generator engine and in a second run in reverse order to add additional functionality to the generator. At the end of the course, the acquired knowledge is to be transferred and presented by means of a small project using a concrete generator tool.