Some thoughts on teaching first year programming

Marcel Dupras; Fernand LeMay; Ali Mili

doi:10.1145/952980.808641

Some thoughts on teaching first year programming

Marcel Dupras, Fernand LeMay, Ali Mili

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Abstract

Teaching programming to first year classes is most often considered a matter of minor importance. We think otherwise. This paper expresses our viewpoint on the matter and reports on an experiment supporting our viewpoint.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	148-153
Number of pages	6
Journal	ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Volume	16
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/952980.808641
State	Published - Feb 1 1984
Externally published	Yes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Software
Food Science
Hardware and Architecture

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Computer Science Curriculum
Teaching programming
program correctness

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