Share Paper: Teaching Students on How Software Development Project can be turned into a Research Project

  1. Johnson Dehinbo, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Tuesday, March 18 3:00-3:20 PM City Terrace 9

Abstract: Students carry out a software development project using different programming languages at the end of the third (final) year of their Diploma study. But while the BTech (4th year) level requires a research project in preparation for Masters’ project, students still want to simply repeat the approach followed in their Diploma project. However, Olivier (2009:4) indicates that a software development project cannot be considered as a research project, but rather engineering projects, though, not being research project does not mean they are not worthwhile – it simply means that different goals, approaches and criteria apply for those projects. So, how ...