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A Study Of First Year Undergraduate Computing Students' Experience Of Learning Software Development In The Absence Of A Software Development Process, Catherine Higgins, Claire Mcavinia, Ciaran O'Leary, Barry J. Ryan
A Study Of First Year Undergraduate Computing Students' Experience Of Learning Software Development In The Absence Of A Software Development Process, Catherine Higgins, Claire Mcavinia, Ciaran O'Leary, Barry J. Ryan
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Despite the ever-growing demand for software development graduates, it is recognised that a significant barrier for increasing graduate numbers lies in the inherent difficulty in learning how to develop software. This paper presents a study that is part of a larger research project aimed at addressing the gap in the provision of educational software development processes for freshman, novice undergraduate learners, to improve proficiency levels. As a means of understanding how such learners problem solve in software development in the absence of a formal process, this study examines the experiences and depth of learning acquired by a sample set of …