What subjects and skills are important for software developers?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-78

  Surakka, Sami ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS;

DISCRETE MATHEMATICS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33845952344     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1188913.1188920     Document Type: Article

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