The study of programming standards in computer science programming courses

Author

Rotenstreich, Shmuel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., George Washington Univ., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

21-23 Mar 1988

Firstpage

80

Lastpage

82

Abstract

Programming standards issues such as object naming, in-source program documentation, and the modularity issue usually referred to as program design are addressed. It is claimed that in light of the importance of programming standards, computer science students must be prepared to use standards in general, and in industry in particular. Since today´s teaching practices avoid this problem, a proposal for minimal programming standards taught by computer science departments is put forward and is shown to achieve several of the goals standardization of programming practices profess to attain

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; programming; standards; computer science programming courses; computer science students; in-source program documentation; modularity issue; object naming; program design; programming standards; Computer industry; Computer languages; Computer science; Documentation; Education; Educational institutions; Optical reflection; Proposals; Software standards; Standardization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Standards Conference, 1988. Computer Standards Evolution: Impact and Imperatives, Proceedings of the

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0791-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSTAND.1988.4767

Filename

4767