Interdisciplinary Software Projects as an Active Methodology to Practice for the Profession

摘要

This paper presents the experience of designing, implementing and evaluating a first semester project-based course for the software engineering bachelors undergraduate curriculum at PUC-MG in Brazil in 2016. We present an overview of the motivation behind the curriculum and the challenges and restrictions considering the generation of students who are going to follow it. The methodology of the course, the selection of the projects, the composition of teams, the work that the students must deliver, the questions that usually arise during the project implementation, and the lessons learned from the perspective of the students and professors are presented. We concluded that although it is a challenge for first year students, the learning experience with the project-based course motivates their learning.