Structured programming in Java

  • Authors:

  • Jeremy Gibbons

  • Affiliations:

  • Oxford Brookes Univ., Oxford, UK

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN Notices
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We argue that for computing majors, it is better to use a 'why' approach to teaching programming than a 'how' approach; this involves (among other things) teaching structured programming before progressing to higher-level styles such as object-oriented programming. We also argue that, once it has been decided to teach structured programming, Java is a reasonable language to choose for doing so.