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Teach Foundational Language Principles.

The article discusses the teaching of computer programming languages and their basic principles in colleges and universities. The authors argue that since new programming languages are continuously being developed, it is critical to teach students foundational language principles. These include garb...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 5; pp. 30 - 32
Autores principales: Ball, Thomas, Zorn, Benjamin
Formato: Opinion
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery May2015
Materias:
Programming languages
Computer programming education in universities & colleges
Structured programming
Domain-specific programming languages
Computer science education
Higher education
Training
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Sumario:The article discusses the teaching of computer programming languages and their basic principles in colleges and universities. The authors argue that since new programming languages are continuously being developed, it is critical to teach students foundational language principles. These include garbage collection and structured programming. Other topics include domain-specific languages (DSLs), formal design languages, and general-purpose languages.