Title: Department of Computer Science Seminar
Date: Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2002
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]
Speaker: Dr Ian Barnes (DCS, ANU)

Description: Personality Type and Software Development



                          Abstract


Why do some people find programming easy but design hard? Why 
do some people like "hacky" languages like Perl or C, while 
others prefer more abstract languages like Eiffel or Haskell? 
Why do some people hate plans while others are lost without 
them?

We all know that people are different. What's interesting is 
that there is some order to the apparent chaos of personality. 
And what's exciting is that perhaps we can use an understanding 
of this to improve the way we teach our students, the way we do 
software development and the design of languages and tools.

I will give an outline of one of the major theories of 
personality type, the Myers-Briggs type indicator, and then 
discuss my ideas about how this is relevant to software and my 
plans for some research on language preference.


URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars02/dept20020807

Biography: Dr Barnes is an academic in the Department of Computer Science at ANU.