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Fitzgerald, S.; McCauley, R.; Hanks, B.; Murphy, L.; Simon, B.; Zander, C. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
Learning to debug is a difficult, yet essential, aspect of learning to program. Students in this multi-institutional study report that finding bugs is harder than fixing them. They use a wide variety of debugging strategies, some of them unexpected. Time spent on understanding the problem can be effective. Pattern matching, particularly at the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Computer Science Education, Introductory Courses, Programming
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Sowe, Sulayman K.; Stamelos, Ioannis G. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2007
Anecdotal and research evidences show that the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) development model has produced a paradigm shift in the way we develop, support, and distribute software. This shift is not only redefining the software industry but also the way we teach and learn in our software engineering (SE) courses. But for many universities…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, College Instruction