Tools and philosophy for software education

Authors:
John J. Donovan
Affiliations:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
1976

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Abstract

This paper describes a set of tools and a philosophy for teaching software that have been found very useful in courses at MIT over the past seven years. The tools include programs such as simulators, graders, compilers, and monitors. These allow the instructor to augment the basic concepts with relevant, exciting, and economical student project activities.