Reviewing Beginners’ Code
Beginner programmers require feedback. This includes both junior programmers and students who program, be they students in computer science, software engineering or other fields involving programming.
Providing this feedback can be tedious: it requires time and attention, and is difficult to do... but it's essential, and too often neglected.
This talk aims to examine the problem of reviewing code produced by beginners, particularly C++ code, including how to evaluate this code, ensuring fairness, and managing to do it within reasonable time constraints.
Patrice Roy
Patrice Roy has been playing with C++ either professionally, for pleasure or (most of the time) both for almost 30 years. After a few years doing R&D and working on military flight simulators, he has moved on to academics and has been teaching computer science since 1998. Since 2005, he has been involved more specifically in helping graduate students and professionals from the fields of real-time systems and game programming develop the skills they need to face today’s challenges.
Patrice been a participating member in the ISO C++ Standards Committee since late 2014 and has been involved with the ISO Programming Language Vulnerabilities working group since late 2015. He has five kids, and his wife ensures their house is home to a continuously changing numbers of cats, dogs and other animals.