Understanding CS1 students; defective software

  • Authors:
  • Mark Guzdial;Bertrand Meyer

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgia Institute of Technology;ETH Zurich and ITMO

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish selected posts or excerpts.twitterFollow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/blogCACMhttp://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacmMark Guzdial writes about why teachers must grasp introductory CS students' theories about computing. Bertrand Meyer argues for the necessity of analyzing large-scale software disasters and publishing a detailed technical study.