Programming languages as part of core computer science

  • Authors:
  • Kim Bruce;Stephen N. Freund

  • Affiliations:
  • Pomona College, Claremont, CA;Williams College, Williamstown, MA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN Notices
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

While the programming languages course played a key role in Curricula '68, '78, and '91, Curriculum 2001 replaced most of the content in programming languages with sections on learning to program. We argue that the need for a programming languages course has not diminished, but instead increased, especially as we move into an era of many-core computing.