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@Article{Tam:1977:PET,
  author =       "W. C. Tam and S. N. Busenberg",
  title =        "Practical experience in top-down structured software
                 production in an academic setting",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "9",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "31--36",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1977",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/382063.803356",
  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 =     "Much has been said about the importance of teaching
                 top-down program design and structured programming in
                 computer programming courses. However, instruction in
                 these concepts has usually been limited to short
                 homework assignments and at most to term projects. This
                 type of experience is very different from the
                 production programming environment encountered in
                 industry, where the problems tackled are generally more
                 complex and on a larger scale. Also, in many cases
                 industrial programs are produced by a programming team
                 under constraints in both time and resources. For
                 students who aspire to a career in the software area,
                 experience in a realistic production programming
                 environment is desirable. Such experience is not
                 provided in the traditional courses and novel ways have
                 to be devised in order to bring it on campus. At Harvey
                 Mudd College, an academic program, called the
                 Mathematics Clinic, has been institured with the aim of
                 providing this type of realistic experience to the
                 student. The Mathematics Clinic brings problems from
                 industry to be studied and solved by small teams of
                 students under faculty supervision. The problems are
                 selected for their educational value, but attention is
                 paid to the feasibility of producing results that are
                 of value to the sponsoring industrial concern. The
                 general organization of the Clinic program has been
                 described by Spanier (1). In the present paper, a
                 production programming project undertaken by the
                 Mathematics Clinic is described with emphasis placed on
                 the mode of instruction and the experience gained by
                 the students.",
  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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