The relationship between student grades and software science parameters
- 25 August 2005
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
The evaluation of programmers' performance has been an important subjecl in recent years. Making the reasonable assumption that a good programmer would consistently write programs of high quality, the problem of evaluation would be simplified if an objective measure of quality were available which could be applied to a sample program. This paper describes an experiment to study the relationship between grades in a programming course, which are the accepted evaluations of student programmers, and certain objectively computed software science parameters on program samples. The data shows that two of the parameters are correlated to the grades.Keywords
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