More than a quarter of all computer programming jobs have vanished in the past two years, the worst downturn that industry has ever seen. Things are sufficiently abysmal that computer programming ...

We conducted an experiment on a college computer-programming course to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the proposed method not only improves the ...

An iteration of the sequential quadratically constrained quadratic programming method (SQCQP) consists of minimizing a quadratic approximation of the objective function subject to quadratic ...