On the use of naming and binding in early courses

Authors:
Mark Smotherman
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Venue:
SIGCSE '87 Proceedings of the eighteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1987

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Abstract

In most computer science curricula, the concepts of naming and binding are explicitly treated only in a small number of the later courses, such as operating systems and programming language foundations. However, these concepts are fundamental and underlie the whole of computer science. In this paper, a proposal is made to explicitly introduce these concepts in the second or third course so that they may be used in the analysis of ideas encountered throughout a student's program of study. The benefit of this earlier introduction is demonstrated by detailing how a computer organization course can explicitly incorporate these concepts. These concepts can also be used to advantage in other early courses, such as data structures.