Just Say 'A Class Defines a Data Type'.

The article discusses the lack of education regarding data types in computer science courses. The author suggests few computer science students can accurately define data types. A data type describes how entities are represented and utilized by algorithms and are defined by classes including program...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 19 - 22
Main Author:	Chenglie Hu
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Mar2008
Subjects:	Computer science education Abstract data types (Computer science) Data structures Programming languages Teaching methods Object-oriented methods (Computer science)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost