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Teaching programming languages in a post-linnaean age

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Shriram KrishnamurthiAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 43, Issue 11

Pages 81 - 83

https://doi.org/10.1145/1480828.1480846

Published: 30 November 2008 Publication History

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Programming language "paradigms" are a moribund and tedious legacy of a bygone age. Modern language designers pay them no respect, so why do our courses slavishly adhere to them? This paper argues that we should abandon this method of teaching languages, offers an alternative, reconciles an important split in programming language education, and describes a textbook that explores these matters.

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Teaching programming languages in a post-linnaean age
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 43, Issue 11

November 2008

137 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/1480828

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Association for Computing Machinery

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Published: 30 November 2008

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