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Kelly Androutsopoulos, L. Aristodemou, Jaap Boender, Michele Bottone, Edward H. Currie, I. El-Aroussi, Bob Fields, Lorenzo Gheri, Nikos Gorogiannis, Michael Heeney, Michael Micheletti, Martin Loomes, M. Margolis, Miltos Petridis, A. Piermarteri, Giuseppe Primiero, Franco Raimondi, Nick Weldin

Year
2018
Citations
3

Abstract

This paper introduces the MIddlesex RoboTic platfOrm (MIRTO), an open-source platform that has been used for teaching First Year Computer Science students since the academic year 2013/2014, with the aim of providing a physical manifestation of Software Engineering concepts that are often delivered using only abstract or synthetic case studies. In this paper we provide a detailed description of the platform, whose hardware specifications and software libraries are all released open source; we describe a number of teaching usages of the platform, report students’ projects, and evaluate some of its aspects in terms of effectiveness, usability, and maintenance.

Keywords

UsabilityComputer scienceSoftware engineeringOpen sourceSoftwareOpen source softwareOpen platformMultimediaHuman–computer interactionProgramming language

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