Review of "A survey of the literature in computer science education since curriculum '68 by Austing, Richard H.; Barnes, Bruce H.; and Engel, Gerald L." Comm. ACM 20, I (Jan. 1977), 13-21.
Wendy Swenson Roth · ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel · 1978
The high cost of training programmers prohibits a trial and error approach to selection. This paper investigates the qualities required in a modern programmer and a means of evaluating them. The results of a recent experiment to determine which of a collection of programmer selectlon tests and subtests proved to be the best predictor are described.