student projects since its inception in 1997; a total of approx. 4380 students have passed the project course. • In general, student reactions have been favorable: While many complain about the amount of work required, they enjoy the opportunity to work as a team on a realistic project for an extended period of time. • The reported total time effort including all project phases in this semester averaged 17.9 h per student and week. In subsequent discussions however, most students acknowledge the fact that learning real software development with ‘toy example applications’ is not possible. National Formosa University Department of Information Management