Factors Affecting the Programming Performance of Computer Science Students

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dc.contributor.authorRaley, John B.en
dc.contributor.committeechairShaffer, Clifford A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBarnette, N. Dwighten
dc.contributor.committeememberHenry, Sallie M.en
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:51:33Zen
dc.date.adate1996-10-11en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:51:33Zen
dc.date.issued1996-10-11en
dc.date.rdate1996-10-11en
dc.date.sdate1998-07-21en
dc.description.abstractTwo studies of factors affecting the programming performance of first- and second year Computer Science students were conducted. In one study students used GIL, a simple application framework, for their programming assignments in a second-semester programming course. Improvements in student performance were realized. In the other study, students submitted detailed logs of how time was spent on projects, along with their programs. Software metrics were computed on the students' source code. Correlations between student performance and the log data and software metric data were sought. No significant indicators of performance were found, even with factors that are commonly expected to indicate performance. However, results from previous research concerning variations in individual programmer performance and relationships between software metrics were obtained.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-4324161499612871en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-4324161499612871/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/36716en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartetd.pdfen
dc.relation.haspartjraley.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectprogrammer performanceen
dc.subjectapplication frameworksen
dc.subjectsoftware metricsen
dc.titleFactors Affecting the Programming Performance of Computer Science Studentsen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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