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Improving user manuals in software engineering education

  • Section I Third SEI Conference On Software Engineering Education
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Miles, G. (1989). Improving user manuals in software engineering education. In: Gibbs, N.E. (eds) Software Engineering Education. SEI 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 376. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0042359

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