Toward an Approach to Programming Education to Produce Qualified Software Developers

There is a common complaint that undergraduate programs in computing in many developing countries have not been preparing students sufficiently to become truly effective in the software industry. Although some programs in computing are justified in paying little attention to programming, it is important to teach it properly to those wishing to develop software professionally. In order to produce qualified software developers, the focus should be not only on determining which programming-related subjects have to be taught, but also on training academicians to teach these subjects efficiently. In this paper we introduce an approach which tackles the former aspects.