An experiment in teaching programming languages

Authors:
F. Mavaddat
Affiliations:
Arya-Mehr University of Technology
Venue:
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Year:
1976

Citing 1
Cited 5

A programming language

A programming language

Using spreadsheets to teach computer science

SIGCSE '86 Proceedings of the seventeenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Teaching and learning computer programming: a survey of student problems, teaching methods, and automated instructional tools

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Another experiment with teaching of programming languages

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Programming languages for introductory computing courses: a position paper

SIGCSE '78 Papers of the SIGCSE/CSA technical symposium on Computer science education
Program working storage: a beginner's model

Proceedings of the 6th Baltic Sea conference on Computing education research: Koli Calling 2006

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

To alleviate some difficulties involved in teaching programming in an introductory course, a simple programmable machine of mechanical nature with a small set of very tangible instructions is proposed. All the necessary concepts such as sequencing, looping, sub-routines and declarative statements are introduced in the framework of this machine. A number of examples are discussed which illustrate the use of this programmable machine. It is argued that a simplified version ofmost programming language is easily teachable by relating the simplified language to the concepts developed for this machine. A simplified version of Fortran is treated as an illustration.