Test-Driven Design for introductory OO programming

SIGCSE'09 - Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 138-142

  Proulx, Viera K ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1 2; Design; Pedagogy; Programming education; Test Driven Design

Indexed keywords

CS1/2; DRIVING FORCES; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAM; PEDAGOGY; PROGRAM COMPLEXITY; PROGRAMMING EDUCATION; PROGRAMMING TEAMS; SOFTWARE SUPPORT; TEST COVERAGE; TEST DESIGNS; TEST DRIVEN DESIGN; TESTING SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CURRICULA; DESIGN; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; TESTING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77953802625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1508919     Document Type: Conference Paper

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