Title
Old dogs and new tricks: retraining legacy programmers in object oriented technology
Abstract
Faced with a chronic shortage of skilled object-oriented programmers, and burdened with art oversupply of procedural programmers leaving Y2K projects, organizations must find ways of retraining existing programmers in the new tricks of object technology However; traditional methods of training do not address the difficulties of making the mind shift from one paradigm to another This paper describes an effort to develop a course that shifts experienced procedural programmers into "object thinking," thus making subsequent traditional OO training more efficient and effective. We describe a long-term exploratory field study that follows students over two years and compare their OO thinking to that of expert OO programmers and to programmers who underwent traditional OO training.This research is supported by a grant from The Boeing Company.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2000
IRMA Conference
old dog,legacy programmer,new trick
Field
DocType
ISBN
Object oriented technology,Software engineering,Computer science,Retraining
Conference
1-878-28984-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
H. James Nelson118913.35
Deb Armstrong241.77