NDLI: Using Literate Programming to Teach Good Programming Practices (1995)

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Using Literate Programming to Teach Good Programming Practices (1995)

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Author	Shum, Stephen Cook, Curtis
Description	The ability to comprehend a program written by other individuals is becoming increasingly important in software development and maintenance. In an attempt to encourage undergraduate Computer Science students to write informative and usable documentation, the literate programming paradigm was incorporated into the teaching of one undergraduate Computer Science course at Augustana College. This paper describes the concept of literate programming, the experience of using literate programming to teach good programming practices, and the results from the experiment that showed that literate programming encourages more documentation. Introduction The ability to comprehend a program written by other individuals is becoming increasingly important in software development and maintenance. Studies have shown that 30-90% of software expenditure is spent on maintaining existing software [15, 12]. Studies have also shown that maintenance programmers spend about half of their time studying the code...
File Format	PDF
Language	English
Publisher	ACM Press
Publisher Date	1995-01-01
Publisher Institution	SIGSE Bulletin: The Papers of the Twenty-Fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Undergraduate Computer Science Student Literate Programming Paradigm Undergraduate Computer Science Course Augustana College Software Development Software Expenditure Usable Documentation Literate Programming Good Programming Practice Maintenance Programmer
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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