Using public and free platform-as-a-service (PaaS) based lightweight projects for software architecture education
Zheng Li · 2020
Background: Software architecture is a crucial while significantly challenging topic in the computer science curriculum. Although "learning by doing" is widely advocated to address this topic's abstract and fuzzy nature, educators are still facing various difficulties in practice, especially including students' vicious circle of inexperience and the mental model dilemma in experiential learning.