What Knowledge Is Important to a Software Professional?

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1. What Knowledge Is Important to a Software Professional? @Ceecirno
2. Intro
3. Intro • Most important educational topicĤ • Gap between learning and use.
4. The Survey
5. The Survey - Participation Ways • Web-based form • Paper version
6. The Survey - Questions • Questions to develop three sets of data: • The importance of various topics taught in computer science, software engineering, and computer engineering curricula. • The emphasis educational institutions place on these topics. • What practitioners believe they currently know about the topics. • College vs. Job • Influences
7. The Survey - Questions (cont.) • 4 sample questions: • Q1: how much the participants learned about a topic during their formal education. • Q2: level of knowledge at the present time. • Q3: how useful the participants have found the specific details of the material to be in their careers. • Q4: influence of the material both professionally and personally.
8. The Survey - Participants • 186 participants • Various backgrounds • Country • Education • etc. Other 23% Canada 23% U.S. 54% Other 15% Postgraduate 37% Bachelor 48%
9. Results
10. Results - Overall • Importance of topics: • Programming languages • Data structures • Design topics • Similar levels of importance: • Software design • Software engineering methods • Software management • Essential subsystem design
11. Results - Learnt In Education • Under-taught (Gap) • Over-taught
12. Results - Learnt In Education (cont.) • Educational knowledge gaps: • Configuration and release management • Negotiation • HCI/UI • Leadership
13. Results - Learnt In Education (cont.) • Over-taught: • Calculus • Differential equations • Linear algebra • Chemistry • Physics
14. Results - Learnt In Job • Software process: • Configuration and release management • Project management • Maintenance and reengineering • Testing, verification • Quality assurance
15. Results - Currently Known • Correlates well with importance • Gaps between education and job