Continuing Education in Software Engineering: Teaching Tricks of the Trade

This document is an edited transcript of the opening session of the Continuing Education Workshop held at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) November 1988. It contains welcoming remarks by Maribeth Carpenter, a senior computer scientist at the SEI and organizer of the workshop, and by Larry Druffel, director of the SEI. Dr. Druffel establishes some context for the workshop and introduces the keynote speaker, Dr. Jon Bentley of AT&T Bell Labs. Then follows Dr. Bentley's talk entitled "Teaching the Tricks of the Trade".