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==Structure==

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Software organization and properties. This subject addresses the programming language theory and, in a broad sense, what software is.

Software notations and tools. This subject classify some practical concerns about software development.

Software creation and management. This subject is which we know traditionally as Software Engineering (SE), but SE as category as missed.

The ACM Computing Classification System,version 1998, is hierarchically structured in four levels: three outer levels, coded by capital letters and numbers, and an uncoded fourth level of subject descriptors. Thus, for example, one branch of the hierarchy contains

:I. Computing Methodologies, which contains:

::I.2 [[Artificial Intelligence]], which contains: