Guenter Hilmer - Phd Thesis - Glamorgan Dspace - University of ...

7.3 New material 7 PRACTICAL EVALUATION
7.3 New material
During the authors’ work as a part-time lecturer at the University of Applied Sci-
ences in Regensburg, we taught the module ’Grundlagen der C/C++ Program-
mierung - Programming in C/C++’. This is a module for the first year of a bache-
lor’s or master’s degree in software engineering. There is no course book existing
and we can be regarded as an educational expert in this domain.
Furthermore, it was decided not to create the educational material for a complete
year, but to focus on the basic concepts of the C programming language.
7.3.1 EHP-Layer
The developed EHPs worked fine during the practical evaluation of the HEAT.
The creation of new EHPs was not necessary, because there was no need for the
creation of new TLSs. However, if a new TLS had been needed, it would have
been necessary to add more EHPs to the EFTECS and the HEAT.
7.3.2 TLS-layer
The designed TLSs were applicable to the creation of new educational material
with the HEAT. During the authoring process of the material, it was also noticed
that a large part of the material could be covered and converted with the existing
TLSs.
However, it was observed that for specific situations, e.g. the demonstration of
how a code works during the run-time of a C-programme, a specialised TLS would
be needed. Such a specialised TLS for programming languages promises great
opportunities for future work (cf. section 9.2) in this area.
7.3.3 Linking of TLSs
The linking of the TLSs was straightforward. Due to the fact that we tried to im-
plement all the different TLSs provided by the HEAT, the linking became very
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