NDLI: An Investigation of Software Development Activities among Undergraduate Students: A Case Study

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Isong, B. Dominic, E.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., Univ. of Venda Thohoyandou, Thohoyandou, South Africa (Isong, B.; Dominic, E.)
Abstract	Computer programming offered in universities is intended to prepare and provide undergraduate students not only with technical knowledge, but with essential skills to work in real-life software projects. Unfortunately, in most developing countries, programming is hard, faced with insufficient infrastructures and teaching staffs. In spite of these challenges, most undergraduate students never back down. They are increasingly developing software applications and improving their skills even without formal classes. But software intended for use other than by the developer requires teamwork and the application of software engineering methodology. Therefore, our concern is on how they learn their programming and what development methodology they apply to ensure product quality. This paper then investigates how and why they learn their programming and their knowledge of software quality. We conducted a survey on undergraduate students of Computer Science (CS) in University of Venda (UNIVEN) who are developers. The data collected were analyzed and qualitatively presented. Our results show that students consider online reuse codes as the new and best method to learn programming. Furthermore, they have used development methodology and are mindful of the software quality.
Starting Page	201
Ending Page	207
File Size	538166
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479930104
DOI	10.1109/CSCI.2014.119
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-03-10
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computers Learning Deveolopers Students Software quality Programming Educational institutions Software Internet Programming profession
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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