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Strategic imperatives in software engineering education

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Software Engineering Education (SEI 1988)

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The strategic imperatives in software engineering education require that universities address the limits of human performance in the intellectual control of computer systems in industry and government. The remarkable growth in critical dependence of businesses and government agencies on computers in a single human generation presents unprecedented opportunities and challenges for educational institutions. Software development and maintenance seems a heuristic, error prone activity, much as doing arithmetic in roman numerals. Software engineering education must find the analogs of long division in place notation in software analysis and design. Such discoveries will change human capabilities as dramatically in software engineering as grade school students making calculations beyond Euclid's capability.

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    Harlan Mills

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Mills, H. (1988). Strategic imperatives in software engineering education. In: Ford, G.A. (eds) Software Engineering Education. SEI 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 327. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0043584

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