Abstract
The authors conducted an experiment in applying components of the Personal Software Processsm (PSP) described in Humphrey[2,3] to a large group of CS1 students. Half of the students were taught selected PSP principles and the other half were asked only to keep track of total time spent on programming assignments. Results indicate that PSP is of value not only to software professionals involved in large projects, or to students in a software engineering school, but also to novices at the CS1 level, regardless of their background.
- 1 Hilburn,Th0mas and Towhidnejad, Massood, "Doing Quality Work:The Role of Software Process Definition in the Computer Science Curriculum," In The Proceedings of the .Twenty-eighth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February 1997, 277-281. Google Scholar
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- 2 Humphrey, Watts S., "A Discipline for Software Engineering." Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA 1995. Google Scholar
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- 3 Humphrey, Watts S., "An Introduction' to the Personal Software Process," Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA 1997. Google Scholar
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Applying the personal software process in CS1: an experiment
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