ProgrammingMethodology
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                   Preface
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                   TheFOLDOC dictionaryofcomputingdefinesCas:
                         A programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs ca. 1972 for
                         systems programming on the PDP-11 and immediately used to reimplement Unix. C is
                         often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain, as "a language that combines all
                         the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability
                         of assembly language".
                   Andthencontinues to define a (programming) methodology as:
                         (a) An organised, documented set of procedures and guidelines for one or more phases
                         of the software life cycle, such as analysis or design. Many methodologies include a di-
                         agramming notation for documenting the results of the procedure; a step-by-step "cook-
                         book" approach for carrying out the procedure; and an objective (ideally quantified) set
                         of criteria for determining whether the results of the procedure are of acceptable quality.
                         AnexampleisTheYourdonmethodology.
                         Or(b): A pretentious way of saying "method".
                   This course attempts to teach some aspects of C programming, and programming methodology. At
                   the end of the course a student should know many of the useful features of the C language, and be
                   able to produce a program using professional programming techniques.
                     1The Free-On-Line-Dictionary-Of-Computing is found at http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
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