Software Code Creation Task

A Software Code Creation Task is a content creation task whose output is software code.

• AKA: Source Code Writing.
• Context:
  • Input: Software Requirements; Software Programming Language.
    • optional: a Software Program Model.
    • optional: a Software Repository.
  • output: Software Code (typically towards a software program).
  • performance measures: Software Coding Performance Measure.
  • It can (typically) be supported by a Software Programming System (typically a software programmer).
  • It can (often) involve the use of a Software Programming Environment.
  • It can (often) be a part of a Software Development Process.
  • It can follow some Software Programming Paradigm, such as object-oriented programming.
  • It can be supported by: Software Debugging, Software Testing, Software Verification, Software Maintenance, and/or Software Understanding.
  • It can range from (typically) being a Manual Programming Task to being an Automated Programming Task.
  • It can range from being a Topic-Focused Software Programming Task to being a General Software Programming Task.
  • It can be instantiated into a Software Programming Act.
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• Example(s):
  • Write three software functions that compute the sum of the numbers in a given list using a for-loop, a while-loop, and recursion.
  • Write a software function that combines two lists by alternatingly taking elements. For example: given the two lists [a, b, c] and [1, 2, 3], the function should return [a, 1, b, 2, c, 3].
  • Write a software function that computes the list of the first 100 Fibonacci numbers.
  • Write a software function that given a list of non negative integers, arranges them such that they form the largest possible number. For example, given [50, 2, 1, 9], the largest formed number is 95021.
  • Write a mathematical program that outputs all possibilities to put + or - or nothing between the numbers 1, 2, ..., 9 (in this order) such that the result is always 100. For example: 1 + 2 + 34 – 5 + 67 – 8 + 9 = 100.
  • a Software Application Production Task, such as a video game production.
  • a Software Coding Contest Task (in a coding contest).
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Test Case Creation Task.
  • a Systems Analysis Task.
  • a Data Mining Task.
  • a Website Designing Task.
  • a Bridge Engineering Task.
• See: Production Capability, Competitive Programming, Software Code Auto-Completion, Software Code Corpus, Software Code Error Correction, Software Code Quality.

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References

• http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Solutions_by_Programming_Task

2019

• (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming Retrieved:2019-11-5.
  • Computer programming is the process of designing and building an executable computer program for accomplishing a specific computing task. Programming involves tasks such as: analysis, generating algorithms, profiling algorithms' accuracy and resource consumption, and the implementation of algorithms in a chosen programming language (commonly referred to as coding). ...

    ... Tasks accompanying and related to programming include: testing, debugging, source code maintenance, implementation of build systems, and management of derived artifacts, such as the machine code of computer programs. These might be considered part of the programming process, but often the term software development is used for this larger process with the term programming, implementation, or coding reserved for the actual writing of code. ...

2014a

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming Retrieved:2014-6-8.
  • Computer programming (often shortened to programming) is a process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable programs. It involves activities such as analysis, understanding, and generically solving such problems resulting in an algorithm, verification of requirements of the algorithm including its correctness and its resource consumption, implementation (commonly referred to as coding ) of the algorithm in a target programming language, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code, implementation of the build system and management of derived artefacts such as machine code of computer programs. The algorithm is often only represented in human-parsable form and reasoned about using logic. Source code is written in one or more programming languages (such as C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Smalltalk, JavaScript, etc.). The purpose of programming is to find a sequence of instructions that will automate performing a specific task or solve a given problem. The process of programming thus often requires expertise in many different subjects, including knowledge of the application domain, specialized algorithms and formal logic.

2014b

• (Marcus & Davis, 2014) ⇒ Gary Marcus, and Ernest Davis. (2014). “Do We Really Need to Learn to Code?”. The New Yorker, June 7, 2014
  • QUOTE: ... But before we reach the era of self-programming computers, three fundamental obstacles must be overcome. ...

    ... Tom Dean, a researcher at Google, told us, “Programming is challenging for artificial intelligence not because it requires concentration and attention to detail but because the path from the conception of what you want to accomplish to the realization of code that actually accomplishes it requires artistry, insight, and creativity as well as incredible mental dexterity.” ...

2013

• http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks
  • QUOTE: Programming tasks are problems that may be solved through programming. When such a task is defined, Rosetta Code users are encouraged to solve them using as many different languages as they know. The end goal is to demonstrate how the same task is accomplished in different languages.

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