Novice software developers, all over again

ICER'08 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on International Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3-14

  Begel, Andrew ^a   Simon, Beth ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science pedagogy; Human aspects of software engineering; Software development; Training

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE PEDAGOGY; COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS; HUMAN ASPECTS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; IN-SITU; INDUSTRIAL SETTINGS; LITTLE RESEARCHES; NEW PROCESS; NEWCOMER SOCIALIZATIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE INDUSTRIES; THROUGH THE LENS; TRAINING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 59249086945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1404520.1404522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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