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This paper attempts to achieve one primary goal: to teach students the concept of reuse and thereby instill a reuse culture in them. We believe that teaching students the reuse concept in their first programming courses and encourage them to use it throughout their entire programming training will increase their productivity. The practice of reuse will then become second nature to them. A controlled experiment is designed and executed to measure the relative effects of a non-reuse paradigm and a reuse paradigm in terms of the Pascal programming course. It also explains how to use the pedagogical laboratories to help students acquire the reuse concept. Conclusions from the analysis of the collected data are presented and the complete experiment is reviewed. Finally we summarize the results of the experiment and present further research and direction in software reuse.
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Hsia, P., Wang, R.H.S., Kung, D.C. (1993). Guided reuse for programmers. In: Díaz-Herrera, J.L. (eds) Software Engineering Education. CSEE 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017637
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