Can graduating students design software systems?

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 403-407

  Eckerdal, Anna ^a   McCartney, Robert ^b   Moström, Jan Erik ^c   Ratcliffe, Mark ^d   Zander, Carol ^e  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Software engineering; Student performance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE DEGREES; STUDENT PERFORMANCE;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 37849038697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121468     Document Type: Conference Paper

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