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Teaching programming languages: A survey of approaches

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Ronald S. LemosAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 1

Pages 174 - 181

https://doi.org/10.1145/953030.809578

Published: 01 January 1979 Publication History

Abstract

Ten approaches to programming language instruction are summarized. The approaches discussed are: structured programming, modular programming, grammatical versus “whole program”, spiral, problem analysis, computer modeling, computer assisted instruction, instructional television, egoless versus individualistic programming, and team debugging.

These approaches are discussed in terms of their general characteristics, proposed benefits, and demonstratable effectiveness. It is concluded that the serious lack of empirical research on teaching programming makes it difficult to rationally infer the comparable effectiveness of these pedagogical approaches.

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Teaching programming languages: A survey of approaches
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
        Computer and information systems training
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 11, Issue 1

Proceedings of the 10th SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education

February 1979

251 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/953030

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SIGCSE '79: Proceedings of the tenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
January 1979
251 pages
ISBN:9781450374316
DOI:10.1145/800126
Chairmen:
Douglas Kerr,
John F. Dalphin

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