Teaching students to build well formed object-oriented methods through refactoring

SIGCSE 2007: 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 145-149

  Stoecklin, Sara ^a   Smith, Suzanne ^b   Serino, Catharina ^c  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science curriculum; Extreme programming; Object oriented design; Refactoring; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INNOVATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULUM; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 34748860818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1227310.1227364     Document Type: Conference Paper

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