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Experimental investigations of the utility of detailed flowcharts in programming

Published:1977-06 Issue:6 Volume:20 Page:373-381
ISSN:0001-0782
Container-title:Communications of the ACM
language:en
Short-container-title:Commun. ACM

Author:

Shneiderman Ben¹,Mayer Richard²,McKay Don³,Heller Peter³

Affiliation:

1. Univ. of Maryland, College Park

2. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

3. Indiana Univ., Bloomington

Abstract

This paper describes previous research on flowcharts and a series of controlled experiments to test the utility of detailed flowcharts as an aid to program composition, comprehension, debugging, and modification. No statistically significant difference between flowchart and nonflowchart groups has been shown, thereby calling into question the utility of detailed flowcharting. A program of further research is suggested.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

General Computer Science

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/359605.359610

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