TY - CHAP
T1 - Myths, beliefs and superstitions about the quality of software and of its teaching
AU - Arenas, Adolfo Guzman
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - It is a surprise to see how, as years go by, two activities so germane to our discipline, (1) the creation of quality software, and (2) the quality teaching of software construction, and more generally of Computer Science, are surrounded or covered, little by little, by beliefs, attitudes, "schools of thought," superstitions and fetishes rarely seen in a scientific endeavor. Each day, more people question them less frequently, so that they become "everyday truths" or "standards to observe and demand." I have the feeling that I am minority in this wave of believers and beliefs, and that my viewpoints are highly unpopular. I dare to express them because I fail to see enough faults in my reasoning and reasons, and because perhaps there exist other "believers" not so convinced about these viewpoints, so that, perhaps, we will discover that "the imperator had no clothes, he was naked."
AB - It is a surprise to see how, as years go by, two activities so germane to our discipline, (1) the creation of quality software, and (2) the quality teaching of software construction, and more generally of Computer Science, are surrounded or covered, little by little, by beliefs, attitudes, "schools of thought," superstitions and fetishes rarely seen in a scientific endeavor. Each day, more people question them less frequently, so that they become "everyday truths" or "standards to observe and demand." I have the feeling that I am minority in this wave of believers and beliefs, and that my viewpoints are highly unpopular. I dare to express them because I fail to see enough faults in my reasoning and reasons, and because perhaps there exist other "believers" not so convinced about these viewpoints, so that, perhaps, we will discover that "the imperator had no clothes, he was naked."
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=35048840229&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-25958-9_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-25958-9_1
M3 - Capítulo
AN - SCOPUS:35048840229
SN - 3540221727
SN - 9783540221722
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1
EP - 8
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
A2 - Larios, Victor
A2 - Ramos, Felix F.
A2 - Unger, Herwig
PB - Springer Verlag
ER -