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An interview is presented with computer scientist Bertrand Meyer. He discusses the creation and development of the Eiffel computer programming language and environment. Other topics include his faculty position at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich in Switzerland, the massive open onl...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 96 - 98
Main Author:	Hoffmann, Leah
Format:	Interview
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Mar2015
Subjects:	Meyer, Bertrand Computer scientists Eiffel (Computer program language) Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Computer programming education in universities & colleges Massive open online courses Agile software development
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	An interview is presented with computer scientist Bertrand Meyer. He discusses the creation and development of the Eiffel computer programming language and environment. Other topics include his faculty position at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich in Switzerland, the massive open online course (MOOC) on computer programming he helped design, and the Agile approach to software development.