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SOLO, a nonnumerical programming language, was developed at The Open University in the U.K. to support a course on Cognitive Psychology. It was designed to acquaint students as painlessly as possible with the computing fundamentals necessary both to grasp AI principles as applied in Cognitive Psycho...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM 1983-12, Vol.26 (12), p.1058-1064
Main Author:	Eisenstadt, Marc
Format:	Magazinearticle
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Applied sciences Computer science control theory systems Exact sciences and technology human-computer interaction instruction man-machine interface Programming languages Software teaching novices
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Summary:	SOLO, a nonnumerical programming language, was developed at The Open University in the U.K. to support a course on Cognitive Psychology. It was designed to acquaint students as painlessly as possible with the computing fundamentals necessary both to grasp AI principles as applied in Cognitive Psychology and to actually initiate fairly sophisticated exercises on their own. The language has been used successfully by more than 2500 social science students.
ISSN:	0001-0782 1557-7317