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@Article{Morgan:1973:ALP,
  author =       "Howard L. Morgan and James C. Kinard",
  title =        "{ASAP}: a language and philosophy for teaching file
                 processing",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "5",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "21--23",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1973",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/953053.808069",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sun Nov 18 08:53:45 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1970.bib",
  note =         "Proceedings of the 3rd SIGCSE symposium on Computer
                 science education.",
  abstract =     "Because large file processing applications are the
                 dominant activity on computers today, it has been a
                 surprise that computer science departments, and
                 particularly schools of business, have been so lax in
                 the attention given to the subject. It is still true
                 that most students receive training in languages such
                 as FORTRAN and BASIC, which must certainly color their
                 opinion of the ability and purpose of computers. Surely
                 few of us would expect a person who is going to be
                 employed in commercial computing to be primarily
                 concerned with the programming of calculations. Rather,
                 what that person will end up doing is requesting and
                 examining information stored in a relatively large data
                 base. It is our contention that such people can be
                 trained in a manner which is directly transferrable to
                 problems in large file processing. Moreover, with this
                 training as the first introduction to computing, one
                 can place computational algorithm languages in their
                 proper context in the commercial world. The ASAP
                 information processing software system, developed by
                 one of us (Morgan) along with Professors Richard Conway
                 and William Maxwell at Cornell University, is a tool
                 for this training. (This software system has been
                 described in the Computing Newsletter for Schools of
                 Business, Daniel Couger, Editor, under the title ``Data
                 Management System Available for Instructional Use.'')
                 The emergence of the generalized data base management
                 systems (GDBMS) over the past few years has clearly
                 been one of the most significant developments in
                 administrative data processing. These systems had their
                 origins in the report generators and statistical
                 packages of the mid-sixties, but are not logically
                 complete-they are capable of creating and maintaining a
                 relatively sophisticated data base, as well as
                 selectively retrieving and updating information in that
                 data base. Well over a thousand computing installations
                 have now got more than fifty of these systems running
                 (see the article by T. William Olle, ``Data Base
                 Management Systems''', in Datamation, 15 November
                 1970).",
  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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