An empirical study on students' ability to comprehend design patterns

Computers and Education

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1007-1016

  Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander ^a   Tsantalis, Nikolaos ^a   Deligiannis, Ignatios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Design patterns; Empirical study; Software engineering course; Software metrics; Student assignments; Teaching methodology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRICULA; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY;

APPROPRIATE PATTERNS; ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS; DESIGN PATTERNS; DESIGN PROBLEMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EMPIRICAL STUDY; ENGINEERING COURSES; ENGINEERING PRACTICES; IMPROVED SYSTEM; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COURSE; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS; TEACHING METHODOLOGY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 48549088731     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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