The bug that destroyed a rocket

Authors:
Mordechai Ben-Ari
Affiliations:
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Israel
Venue:
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Year:
2001

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Abstract

In the 2000 December issue of inroads, Michael Williams suggested that the failure of the Ariane 5 rocket launch could be used as a case study in teaching programming concepts. Here is an article I wrote several years ago in which I present the story of the Ariane 5 in terms used to teach introductory computer science.