A survey of how practicing programmers keep up-to-date first results including their implications for computer science education
James L. Fisher, John Michael Alvarez, Robert P. Taylor · 1978
As the field of data processing grows, it becomes increasingly important for the computer professional to keep abreast of new developments. Because one of the most significant of these new developments is structured programming, we decided to use knowledge of structured programming concepts as a measure of how up-to-date a programmer is. Thus, we undertook to answer the following questions: