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@Article{Moursund:1977:CMG,
  author =       "David Moursund",
  title =        "Calculator metaphors, and goals for calculator
                 education in elementary schools",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "9",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "100--103",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1977",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/382063.803368",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sun Nov 18 08:53:56 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1970.bib",
  note =         "Special issue for the Seventh Technical Symposium on
                 Computer Science Education.",
  abstract =     "Computers are not easy to understand. Even a computer
                 scientist who devotes full time to the field cannot
                 hope to fully comprehend the capabilities, limitations,
                 applications, and implications of these machines.
                 Joseph Weizenbaum, in his recent book Computer Power
                 and Human Reason (1), suggests that most people
                 ``understand'' computers via what he calls a computer
                 metaphor. Weizenbaum quotes I. A. Richards, who says a
                 metaphor is ``fundamentally a borrowing between and
                 intercourse of thoughts, a transaction between
                 contexts.'' That is, a metaphor is an analogy, a
                 simile, a model; it is designed to relate the unknown
                 to the known. There are many possible computer
                 metaphors. Weizenbaum makes the point that many people
                 have accepted one particular computer metaphor, and
                 that it is a particularly misleading one. Computer
                 scientists think of a computer as a machine that can
                 carry out an effective procedure. The words procedure
                 and effective procedure have meaning to non-computer
                 scientists. They can see that humans carry out
                 procedures, or that many activities of humans can be
                 thought of as execution of effective procedures. The
                 effective procedure computer metaphor thus leads to the
                 belief that humans and computers are quite similar in
                 their capabilities and in the way they solve
                 problems.",
  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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