Downloads
Here you will find all of the necessary files to create your own copy (or copies) of Problems and Programmers, all that you need to provide is a printer and a paper cutter.
pnp-images.zip - This includes all of the card image files, along with some brief instructions on cutting the sheets into cards and the number of each sheet needed to produce a copy of the game.
Pnp_Instructions_New.doc - A newer, streamlined version of the rules. These have not been very thoroughly tested yet, so please send any points of confusion to us here.
Pnp_Instructions.doc - This is the original version of the rules, which were used when teaching the students for our initial experiment. This document is functionally the same as the newer one, but a bit unwieldy by comparison.
Please direct any questions about creating or playing the game to Alex Baker. Any comments or suggestions at all on the game or its rules would be very greatly appreciated. The game is still undergoing changes and the more feedback we get, the more we will be able to improve it.
Publications
The following are papers that have been published on Problems and Programmers:
- An Experimental Card Game for Teaching Software Engineering Processes, in Journal of Systems of Software (to appear) - JSS2004.pdf
- Teaching Software Engineering Using Simulation Games, in Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Simulation in Education, San Diego, California, January 2003 - ICSIE2004.pdf
- Problems and Programmers: An Educational Software Engineering Card Game, in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering, Portland, Oregon, May 2003 - ICSE2003.pdf
- An Experimental Card Game for Teaching Software Engineering, in Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Madrid, Spain, March, 2003 - CSEET2003.pdf
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