====== The Reflective Software Engineer: Reflective Practice ======

  * Most important: **learning from what real software developers do!**
  * http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6834681&tag=1
  * reflective practitioner
  * Tom DeMarco mentioned
  * Tore Dybå author #1
  * Robert Glass author #3
  * //“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” —Søren Kierkegaard// -- Wrong. Explained, not understood.
  * reflection **on** action
  * reflection **in** action
  * **The concept of reflective practice centers on the idea of lifelong learning.**
  * experiential learning
  * David Kolb: Kolb’s model of experiential learning (see Figure  //Experiential learning cycle//)
    * concrete experience
    * reflective observation
    * abstract conceptualization
    * active experimentation
  * Paper mentioned -- Basili, Caldiera:  Experience Factories
  * Occasions of Reflection
  * This issue:
    * //Each article describes an approach that the authors have evaluated in some practical way.//
    * //these articles aren’t just about the theory of reflective practice; they’re about its implementation.//
    * “Coderetreats:  Reflective Practice and the Game of Life” by David Parsons, Anuradha Mathrani, Teo Susnjak, and Arno Leist
      * ??? “The Game of Life,” in which participants focus intensely on a narrowly described part of a program


   * Book: The Reflective Practitioner, Donald Schön (1984) [[http://www.amazon.com/The-Reflective-Practitioner-Professionals-Action/dp/0465068782/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405980232&sr=8-1&keywords=the+reflective+practitioner%2C+donald+sch%C3%B6n|Amazon]]