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- Title
MOVING TOWARD A SERVER-BASED VIRTUAL MACHINE HOSTING ENVIRONMENT IN SUPPORT OF UNIVERSITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMMING COURSES.
- Authors
Stefanek, George; Patel, Nipul
- Abstract
University information technology programming courses require the use of an integrated development environment such as Microsoft Visual Studio and often other additional software such as a database system or middleware in order to complete programming assignments. Students prefer to have the flexibility of performing programming tasks on their own PCs at times convenient to them instead of using university lab computers that have the required software. This requires students to download and install the various pieces of software needed for the course onto their own computers. Students can experience complex installation problems, compatibility issues with university computers, and compatibility issues when integrating multiple pieces of software together on team projects. To avoid these type of problems students need to have a software development environment where all the software components and operating systems are exactly at the same version level as the university lab releases. This will provide a stable and compatible platform for programming, and allow students to focus their full efforts on course programming assignments. This paper proposes that the most effective environment to solve these problems is to use virtual machines hosted on university servers that have an approved and tested software configuration to support specific course requirements.
- Subjects
VIRTUAL machine systems; COMPUTER programming education; INFORMATION technology; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges
- Publication
Issues in Information Systems, 2015, Vol 16, Issue 1, p219
- ISSN
1529-7314
- Publication type
Article