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There are many tricks of the software trade; this paper has sampled just a few. The science and management techniques underlying software are essential to any career in software engineering, but these tricks are sometimes useful. Careful use of the tricks has catapulted more than one competent young programmer into software superstardom.
I don't think that these tricks should be given a one-hour lecture in a software engineering course. Some might deserve a ten-minute lecture here or a five-minute story there. But for the most part, tricks are learned through osmosis: your students will learn them as you apply them in lectures and as your teaching assistants apply them in software laboratories. And if they do learn these tricks, both your students and their employers will be grateful to you.
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Bentley, J. (1988). Teaching the tricks of the trade. In: Ford, G.A. (eds) Software Engineering Education. SEI 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 327. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0043583
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