Introduction

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Introduction

Program comprehension plays a major role in any non-trivial software development effort

"To program is to understand"

Two basic program comprehension approaches
- Prevenient/proactive
  - The program understanding is formulated as a forethought before or during the development of the source program
- Posterior/reactive
  - The program understanding is formulated as an afterthough following the completion of the source program.