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@Article{Martin:1977:PFP,
  author =       "Edith W. Martin and Albert N. Badre",
  title =        "Problem formulation for programmers",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "9",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "133--138",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1977",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/382063.803375",
  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 =     "The various attempts to augment man's information
                 processing capabilities with the use of machines became
                 significantly more realistic with the advent of the
                 modern electronic and adaptive-logic computers4. With
                 the introduction of advanced computing capabilities, a
                 host of new and serious challenges emerged. One of the
                 main challenges is that of transforming an ill-stated
                 problem to one acceptable by the computer. Once a
                 problem is well-stated, communication becomes
                 relatively simple3. The burden is on the programmer to
                 be the interface between the world of ill-stated
                 problems and the computers. The programmer has to
                 select a methodology by which he can take an ill-stated
                 problem and restate it in such a way that it can be
                 developed into a set of procedures and expressed in a
                 language that is acceptable and understood by the
                 machine. In order to more fully utilize computers for
                 problem solving it is necessary that we understand more
                 completely how we formulate a problem solution. Probes
                 into the problem formulation question have been of two
                 types, symptomatic and methodilogical. The symptomatic
                 approach focuses on the program structuring
                 capabilities provided by programming languages. It is
                 believed that programming languages having certain
                 program structuring features permit a more
                 comprehensible organization of the problem solution and
                 relate positively to successful programming. The second
                 approach, which is being proposed here, is to examine
                 problem solving methodologies used in computer
                 programming. Our specific objectives are (1) to examine
                 the possibility that a recognizable set of problem
                 solving strategies maybe observed in a programming
                 task, (2) given such strategies, the relationship these
                 have to success levels in programming performance. In
                 other words, how does programming performance vary as a
                 function of the structuring of the problem by the
                 programmer.",
  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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