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Tech Meetups In A Pandemic
By 2019, I generally thought there wasn't much that could surprise me about organizing meetups. Then Covid-19 hit. I was so wrong…
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A Standard Plan for Modern Requirements
The ambitious systems that we develop today need a proper requirements structure. The plan defined here organizes requirements specification along four books, the...
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Tips for Successful Examinations in the Age of Remote Education
Rather than fancying you can control Internet access, design exams to reward students who won't need it.
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Lessons From and For Online Teaching
The troika model for successful online teaching.
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Time to Exhume PSP?
The Personal Software Process encourages programmer discipline. Largely forgotten, it does have a few wrinkles, but understanding and applying its core ideas remains...
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Things To Do To An Algorithm
What happens when people's fate hangs on machine learning?
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Getting a Program Right (1)
Why it is good to have a systematic approach to software verification.
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There is More Than One Way to Become a Good Programmer
A recent Communications of the ACM article casts aspersions on the innovative concept of code academy, a fast-developing approach to teaching programming. The analysis...
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Are My Requirements Complete?
Knowing the notion of sufficient completeness and the theory of abstract data types helps practitioners produce better requirements.
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The Shortest Possible Schedule Theorem: Yes, You Can Throw Money at Software Deadlines
As close as we have to a universal law of software engineering management.
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Soundness and Completeness: With Precision
The two key properties of program analysis are dual of each other.
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