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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| Using Jackson Structured Programming (JSP) and Jackson Workbench to Teach Program |
| University of Maine at Augusta, USA |
| Teaching how to program independently of teaching a programming language has been recognized as a worthwhile |
| goal in computer science pedagogy, but many have abandoned the goal as being impossible to achieve in practice. |
| Jackson Structured Programming (JSP) is a well-documented and proven program design method that is independent |
| of any programming language. |
| CASE tools have generally been used in designing information systems rather than programs. Jackson Workbench |
| (Keyword Computer Services Limited, 2002) is a CASE tool for designing programs (as well as information |
| systems) that generates executable program code in several contemporary program-ming languages (Visual BASIC, |
| Java, C++). Jackson Workbench contains a unique Structure Editor that uses “hotspots” to draw and syntactically |
| validate program tree structure diagrams. As a result, the user-c344 can focus entirely on the design process, and leave |
| the details of drawing to the CASE tool. |
| Keywords: program design, visual design, design patterns, software engineering, constructive design, JSP, tree |
| diagrams, modeling, computer science education, CASE tool |
ISSN
1535-07-03
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