This report talks about the experiences that the authors faced in teaching software architecture to senior undergraduate and post-graduate students at IIT Kanpur over the last five years. The problem is one of teaching design and architecture to a community with a background only in programming (programming in the small)—a situation we sometimes face in the induction and training programs in the industry as well. We catalog the approaches that worked and point out some of the problems in teaching in a classroom setting, a domain which is perhaps best learned through an apprenticeship.

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