Review of the Psychological Issues Relating to the Effectiveness of Structured Programming

摘要

Claims have been made that the failure of empirical studies to establish the efficacy of structured programming is due to the lack of psychological models of the programming task. Many authors have pointed out that psychological research on the human information processing model might provide substance to the claim that structured programming facilitates a programmer's understanding of program logic. This thesis reviews the results of current psychological research and shows that at this time it is not possible to build a satisfactory psychological model of the programmer and his/her task. In order to define the programming task more clearly, the issues involving the psychological model are identified.