학술논문
MIRTO : an Open-Source Robotic Platform for Education
Document Type
Conference
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Source
Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference of Software Engineering Education. :55-62
Subject
Language
English
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.