Continuity of student software development in tertiary institutions

ABSTRACT

Despite the availability and professional use of programming productivity aids and techniques, instruction in their use seems to be absent from tertiary computer programming courses. This is partly because the student programming environment in tertiary institutions lacks the continuity of software development normally found in the real world of professional computer programming. A greater emphasis on this aspect of computer programming, and the ways and means that may be employed, would better acquaint our computer programming students with their probable working environment and make the good programming practices which are currently taught, more relevant to the students.

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