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@Article{Fisher:1978:SHP,
  author =       "James Fisher and John Alvarez and Robert Taylor",
  title =        "A survey of how practicing programmers keep up-to-date
                 first results including their implications for computer
                 science education",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "10",
  number =       "3",
  pages =        "67--72",
  month =        aug,
  year =         "1978",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/953028.804236",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sun Nov 18 07:38:06 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1970.bib",
  note =         "Proceedings of the 9th SIGCSE symposium on Computer
                 science education.",
  abstract =     "As the field of data processing grows, it becomes
                 increasingly important for the computer professional to
                 keep abreast of new developments. Because one of the
                 most significant of these new developments is
                 structured programming, we decided to use knowledge of
                 structured programming concepts as a measure of how
                 up-to-date a programmer is. Thus, we undertook to
                 answer the following questions: 1. How up-to-date are
                 today's programmers, i.e., how aware are they of some
                 of these new concepts? 2. From what sources did they
                 learn about these concepts? How much did these sources
                 influence their work? 3. What are some of the other
                 factors which influence up-to-dateness? To find the
                 answers, we prepared a survey of sixteen questions. The
                 first fifteen questions were designed to provide us
                 with a background profile of our polled population. The
                 last question dealt specifically with structured
                 programming, presenting a list of programming concepts
                 and potential sources for learning about these
                 concepts. The respondent was questioned about his
                 familiarity with a particular concept, his source of
                 learning about the concept, and the degree to which his
                 work was influenced by this source. The responses were
                 input to a program written in CROSSTABS, a commercially
                 available utility package, to produce tables of
                 cross-tabulations and frequency percentages. We
                 analyzed these tables and our conclusions drawn from
                 this analysis follow.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
}

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