Team dynamics and the undergraduate curriculum

The work habits of computer science students are rarely good. Most students adopt undesirably hermetic attitudes toward problem solving, despite the fact that large-scale programming problems demand cooperative efforts for their effective solution.This is not surprising. Students learn to write prog...

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Published in:SIGCSE bulletin 1978-12, Vol.10 (4), p.28-29
Main Authors: Hansen, John C., Hansen, Elizabeth A., Derus, Kenneth H.
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