Workshop on Bad Practice Smells in Novice Software Engineering Education

Abstract

This workshop aims to address the common bad practices and habits that novice software engineering students develop and how educators can detect them and guide students towards better practices before they become ingrained. The workshop explored this by soliciting contributions of bad practices educators have observed in teaching introductory software engineering. Contributions were workshopped to develop a compendium of bad practices, along with proposed remediations and subsequently shared with the software engineering education community. The workshop concluded with recommendations for using the compendium to improve software engineering education.