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The business of software development is solving problems. Following Polya, we can increase our ability to solve problems by focusing directly on problems themselves, on their parts and structures, and on the relationship between problem and solution method. This leads to an emphasis on describing the world outside the computer, and reasoning about it explicitly; to an approach to problem complexity and decomposition; and to a particular view of the proper role of object-orientation in software development.
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Jackson, M. (1995). Problems, Descriptions, and Objects. In: Patel, D., Sun, Y., Patel, S. (eds) OOIS’94. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3016-1_2
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