Testing first: Emphasizing testing in early programming courses

Proceedings of the 10th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 4-8

  Marrero, Will ^a   Settle, Amber ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; CS2; TDD; Testing

Indexed keywords

CS1; CS2; TDD;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; STUDENTS; TESTING;

CURRICULA;

EID: 29844442321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1067445.1067451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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