Being a Software Developer

The genome is software and evolution is a software developer

The genome is software and evolution is a software developer José del Carmen Rodríguez Santamaría The genome is software because it a set of verbal instructions for a pro-grammable computer, the ribosome. The theory of evolution now reads: evolution is the software developer responsible for the existence of the genome. We claim that this setting, whose official name is genetic programming, is n...

Creating a Teacher and Software-developer Partnership

As teachers are the educational experts, if we want to produce software that is both directly relevant to their needs and can be successfully integrated into the classroom, we need to facilitate a strong co-operative working partnership between the teacher and the software developer. This paper looks at a case study where we create such a partnership and study the consequences. The overall aim ...

Towards a Software Developer Context Model

The context of a developer can be viewed as a rich and complex network of elements across different dimensions that are not limited to the work developed on an IDE. We propose the definition of a software developer context model that takes into account all the dimensions that characterize the work environment of the developer. We are especially focused on the project dimension and present a def...

User Confidence-and the Software Developer

industry because each of these applications needs someone to develop and maintain them. Recently however, my friends and I have been inundated with spyware—applications that lurk in the background and capture everything from keystrokes to the URLs of Web sites I visit. While I’m obviously concerned about my personal information getting into others’ hands, I’m equally concerned about the effect ...

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