article

Free access

Converting from Pascal to Modula-2 in the undergraduate curriculum

Authors:

Philippe J. Gabrini,

J. Mack Adams,

Barry L. KurtzAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 18, Issue 1

Pages 50 - 52

https://doi.org/10.1145/953055.5629

Published: 01 February 1986 Publication History

PDF eReader

Abstract

Modula-2 has been adopted as the primary programming language at New Mexico State University. This paper discusses the reasons which led to this choice of a new primary programming language. It compares some of the features of Pascal, Modula-2 and Ada. It also gives the results of our implementation efforts.

References

[1]

Augenstein M., Tenenbaum, A., Weiss G. Seleeting a primary programming language for a computer science curriculum: PL/1, Pascal, and Ada, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol 15, No 1 (Feb. 1983).148- 153.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[2]

Evans H., Patterson W., implementing Ada as the primary programming language. ACNI SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol 17, No 1 (Feb 1985), 255-265.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[3]

Austing R.H., CURRICULUM 78, Recommendations for the undergraduate program in computer seienee, CACM, Vol "22, No 3 (March 1973)). 147- 166

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[4]

Wiener R.S., Sincovee R.F., Software engineering with Modula-2 and Ada, Wiley, 1984.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[5]

Koffman E.B., Stemple d., wardle C.E., Recommended curriculum for CS2, 1984, CACM, Vol 28, No 8 (Aug 1985), 815-818

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[6]

Koffman E.B., Miller P.L. Wardle C.E., Recommended curriculum for CS1, 1984, CACM. Vol 27,No 10 (Oct 1984), 998-1001

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[7]

Wirth N., Programming in Modula-2, Springer Verlag, 3rd edition. 1985.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[8]

Evans A., A Comparison of programming Languages: Ada, Pascal, C.in Comparing and Assessing programming languages: Ada, C, and Pascal, Prentice-Hall, 1984, 66-94

Google Scholar

[9]

Lees B,. Introductory Concurrent Programming, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol 17, No 3, (Sept 1985), 34-41

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[10]

Wiener R.S. Sineover R.F. Two Approaches to implementing Generie Data Structures in Modula- 2, ACM SIGPLAN Bulletin, vol 20, N0 6 (June 1985), 56-64.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[11]

Shammas N.C., Magel K, Microcomputer Modula- 2 analysis, Computer Language, Vol "2, No 10 (October 1985), 83-100

Google Scholar

[12]

Adams J.Ikl., Gabrini P.J., Kurtz B.L., Programming and problem solving with Modula-2, D.C. Heath, 1986

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Owen G(1987)Using Ada on microcomputers in the undergraduate curriculumProceedings of the eighteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/31820.31789(374-377)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1987
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/31820.31789
Owen G(1987)Using Ada on microcomputers in the undergraduate curriculumACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/31726.3178919:1(374-377)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1987
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/31726.31789
Roberts E(1993)Using C in CS1ACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/169073.16936125:1(117-121)Online publication date: 1-Mar-1993
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/169073.169361
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Converting from Pascal to Modula-2 in the undergraduate curriculum

Recommendations

Modula-2 and Oberon
HOPL III: Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages

This is an account of the development of the languages Modula-2 and Oberon. Together with their ancestors ALGOL 60 and Pascal they form a family called Algol-like languages. Pascal (1970) reflected the ideas of structured programming, Modula-2 (1979) ...
A portable optimizing compiler for Modula-2
Proceedings of the SIGPLAN '84 symposium on compiler construction

A portable compiler for the Modula-2 programming language has been implemented with a simple, machine independent optimizer. The front end of the compiler generates a dialect of P-code, and the back end translates the P-code into machine language. The ...
Converting from Pascal to Modula-2 in the undergraduate curriculum
SIGCSE '86: Proceedings of the seventeenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Modula-2 has been adopted as the primary programming language at New Mexico State University. This paper discusses the reasons which led to this choice of a new primary programming language. It compares some of the features of Pascal, Modula-2 and Ada. ...

Reviews

Reviewer: James Dennis Kiper

This paper presents a short summary of the decision made at New Mexico State University to switch from Pascal to Modula-2 as the primary programming language to be used in its computer science curriculum. The motivations for the change center on the features of separate compilation, information hiding, strong type checking, and concurrent processing. The advantages of Modula-2 over Ada are enumerated. Problems discovered in this decision and its implementation are described. The reasons given for the decision to switch and to choose Modula-2 over Ada seem to be clearly valid, although the level of discussion is not deep enough to reveal anything new. It would be interesting to have a more scientific comparison of the relative effectiveness of these languages in the computer science curriculum.

Access critical reviews of Computing literature here

Become a reviewer for Computing Reviews.

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 18, Issue 1

Proceedings of the 17th SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education

February 1986

304 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/953055

Issue’s Table of Contents

SIGCSE '86: Proceedings of the seventeenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
February 1986
336 pages
ISBN:0897911784
DOI:10.1145/5600
Editors:
Joyce Currie Little
Towson State Univ., Baltimore, MD
,
Lillian N. Cassel
Univ. of Delaware, Newark

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 01 February 1986

Published in SIGCSE Volume 18, Issue 1

Check for updates

Qualifiers

Article

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

8
Total Citations
View Citations
332
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)87
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)19

Reflects downloads up to 23 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Owen G(1987)Using Ada on microcomputers in the undergraduate curriculumProceedings of the eighteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/31820.31789(374-377)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1987
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/31820.31789
Owen G(1987)Using Ada on microcomputers in the undergraduate curriculumACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/31726.3178919:1(374-377)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1987
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/31726.31789
Roberts E(1993)Using C in CS1ACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/169073.16936125:1(117-121)Online publication date: 1-Mar-1993
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/169073.169361
Roberts EKlein BLaxer CYoung F(1993)Using C in CS1Proceedings of the twenty-fourth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/169070.169361(117-121)Online publication date: 1-Apr-1993
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/169070.169361
Kurtz BAdams J(1988)Using concept expansion and level integration in an introductory computer science courseACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/52965.5302520:1(244-248)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1988
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/52965.53025
Kurtz BAdams J(1988)Using concept expansion and level integration in an introductory computer science courseProceedings of the nineteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/52964.53025(244-248)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1988
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/52964.53025
Owen G(1987)Using Ada on microcomputers in the undergraduate curriculumProceedings of the eighteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/31820.31789(374-377)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1987
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/31820.31789
Owen G(1987)Using Ada on microcomputers in the undergraduate curriculumACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/31726.3178919:1(374-377)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1987
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/31726.31789

View Options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Abstract

References

Cited By

Index Terms

Recommendations

Modula-2 and Oberon

A portable optimizing compiler for Modula-2