Ninety percent of any Computing Science academic staff are involved with project work at some stage of their working life. Often they have no previous experience of how to handle it, and there are no written guidelines or reference books at the moment. Knowledge and practical experiences are often only disseminated from one institution to another when staff change jobs. This book is the first reference work to fill that gap in the market. It will be of use to lecturers and course designers who want to improve their handling of project work in specific courses, and to department heads and deans who want to learn about overall strategic issues and experiences from other institutions.

Designed to support a student in studying programming. This book has to be used alongside a book teaching programming language, or in alongside a formal course. The book mirrors the conceptual and developmental steps that a student takes from confronting their very first blank screen to working on complex problems within a team.