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Documentation standards in the undergraduate computer science curriculum

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Renée A. McCauley,

Ursula Jackson,

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SIGCSE '96: Proceedings of the twenty-seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 242 - 246

https://doi.org/10.1145/236452.236548

Published: 01 March 1996 Publication History

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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.

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Documentation standards in the undergraduate computer science curriculum
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Model curricula
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Documentation

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SIGCSE '96: Proceedings of the twenty-seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

March 1996

447 pages

ISBN:089791757X

DOI:10.1145/236452

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 28, Issue 1
March 1996
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ISSN:0097-8418
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Chairmen:
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Hofstra Univ.,Hempstead,NY
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