Difficulties experienced by students in maintaining object-oriented systems: An empirical study

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 66, Issue , 2007, Pages 81-87

  Karahasanović, Amela ^a   Thomas, Richard C ^b  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; IMPACT ANALYSIS; JAVA APPLICATIONS; JAVA TOOLS; MAINTENANCE TASKS; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAM; OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEM; PROGRAM LOGIC; UNIVERSITY EDUCATION; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; EXPERIMENTS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84869107051     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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