Student project work is a vital educational component of a Computer Science degree. We have enjoyed supervising student computing projects in six different universities around the world. We attempt to distill these experiences into a ``formula'' for the time-pressured academic supervisor. We discuss project themes of recent interest to computing students and various strategies for managing portfolios of student projects for the greatest benefit of both the students concerned and the supervisors. We expect many colleagues will share our views and will have had similar experiences but we note a surprising ``silence'' in the Computing Science Education literature.
Keywords: Final year student projects; computing culture; research training
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Citation Information: In Proc. 7th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE), Newcastle, Australia, 2005.
BiBTeX reference:
@inproceedings{ACE2005,
Address = {Newcastle, Australia},
Author = {H. A. James and K. A. Hawick and C. J. James},
Booktitle = {Proc. Seventh Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2005)},
Editor = {Alison Young and Denise Tolhurst},
Month = {February},
Organization = {Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology},
Pages = {259--267},
Publisher = {Australian Computer Science Communications, Vol 42, Number 5},
Title = {Teaching students how to be Computer Scientists through student projects},
Year = {2005},
series = "CSTN-011"
}
\bibitem{CSTN-011}
H. A. James, K. A. Hawick and C. J. James,
Teaching students how to be Computer Scientists through student projects,
In Proc. 7th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE),
Newcastle, Australia, 2005, Edited by Alison Young and Denise
Tolhurst, Australian Computer Science Communications Vol 42, No. 5,
PP 259-267.