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The Students Have Spoken: AI-Integrated Web Development Survey Results

Grant Erickson — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Course: CSCD 379 — .NET Web Development (300-level), Eastern Washington University, Winter 2026 Instructor: Grant Erickson (IntelliTect), with Meg Gravatt and Benjamin Michaelis Approach: Full integration of AI tools across requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, and DevOps Total Responses: 8 Overall Likert Average: 4.375 / 5.0 Series posts: If AI Writes the Code, What Should We Teach?, A Powerful Hope for the Future, Software Engineering Fundamentals Matter More…

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Software Engineering Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever

Grant Erickson — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

This is the fourth post in my series about integrating AI into my .NET Web Development course at Eastern Washington University. Here are links: If AI Writes the Code, What Should We Teach?, A Powerful Hope for the Future, and Software Engineering Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever. This post is different. This one is about what the students…

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Software Engineering Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever

Grant Erickson — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

It’s been an exciting journey integrating AI into my .NET Web Development course at Eastern Washington University. Building on my earlier posts about our initial experiments—“If AI Writes the Code, What Should We Teach?” and “A Powerful Hope for the Future”—I’m thrilled to share that students are still delivering outstanding results. Their original web apps—complete…

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A Powerful Hope for the Future

Grant Erickson — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000

I am seeing powerful hope growing in the next generation of software engineers. My web development students at Eastern Washington University are absolutely crushing it. After a successful foray into AI by building Wordle from scratch, I gave them a new challenge: create any web app they want, as long as it doesn’t already exist…

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If AI Writes the Code, What Should We Teach?

Grant Erickson — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

For the past four years, IntelliTect’s staff has partnered with Eastern Washington University to teach a variety of computer science courses. I teach the .NET Web Development class, and every year I’ve wrestled with the same question: How do I meaningfully integrate AI into a curriculum that’s supposed to prepare students for the real world?…

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