Abstract
A theoretical framework has been defined to elucidate the problems raised in the training of analyst-programmers, and a beginning made in validating it in a preliminary experiment. This experiment enabled it to be shown that a programming language is progressively interiorized by a subject in the form of a “Systeme de Representation et de Traitement” (S.R.T.) or “Representation and Processing System”, in which the experienced programmer can analyse problems. Prior to this, however, he must have made his analysis in other S.R.T.s that are more or less compatible with the programming language concerned. Nineteen subjects of various level of training were made to construct a Cobol flowchart of a Metro ticket-machine control problem. An analysis of errors was made and the strategies used described with the aid of 22 variables in order to determine the three principal steps involved in learning a programming language.
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