From Domain Understanding to Design Readiness: a playbook for GenAI-supported learning in Software Engineering

arXiv:2604.00120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software engineering courses often require rapid upskilling in supporting knowledge areas such as domain understanding and modeling methods. We report an experience from a two-week milestone in a master's course where 29 students used a customized ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) tutor grounded in a curated course knowledge base to learn cryptocurrency-finance basics and Domain-Driven Design (DDD). We logged all interactions and evaluated a 34.5% random sample