Documentation standards in the undergraduate computer science curriculum

Authors:
Renée A. McCauley;Ursula Jackson;Bill Manaris
Affiliations:
Computer Science Department, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Box 41771 - USL Station, Lafayette, LA;Computer Science Department, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Box 41771 - USL Station, Lafayette, LA;Computer Science Department, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Box 41771 - USL Station, Lafayette, LA
Venue:
SIGCSE '96 Proceedings of the twenty-seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1996

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Abstract

This paper focuses on documentation standards and their employment throughout the undergraduate computer science curriculum. Specifically, it presents the motivation for a set of well-defined documentation standards for programming-intensive computer science courses. Additionally, it discusses the establishment of standards addressing both the procedure- and object-oriented programming paradigms. Finally, it relates the authors' experiences in using such standards to teach many software engineering principles along with required concepts in the undergraduate computer science curriculum.