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- From: titus@dallas.sil.org
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Why is the Software Process NOT working
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.115203.89@dallas.sil.org>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 11:52:03 CST
- References: <1993Jan19.155446.13593@cs.few.eur.nl> <1993Jan20.132009.10982@cc.gatech.edu> <C1F1vC.27B@plato.ds.boeing.com> <1k1tasINNan0@andre.d.umn.edu>
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- In article <1k1tasINNan0@andre.d.umn.edu>, kpierce@andre.d.umn.edu
- (Keith Pierce) writes:
- > I believe that University courses CAN teach students
- > industrial-strength processes, because I've been doing it.
-
- I can speak from my own experience as a student.
-
- Back in the late 70's, my COBOL teacher at Georgia Tech
- broke us up into 2-3 person teams for our assignments. His
- reasoning being that we WOULD have to (sooner or later)
- learn to work as a part of a team. I found it a beneficial
- experience.
-
- My own pet peeve is programmers who can't comment their
- way out of an empty loop. Maybe I was spoiled by starting
- out professionally in assembler, where good source
- documentation is a live-or-die issue. I also had the (in
- retrospect) good fortune to do a major maintenance job on a
- device driver that had little or no documentation; it took
- me several months just to figure out what was going on. My
- next project, which provided a counter-example, was on
- another driver that had been well documented; it took me
- about 20 *MINUTES* to figure out where the changes needed to
- be made!
-
- <EOS> (end-of-soapbox)
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