Computer science: a conceptual framework for curriculum planning
Communications of the ACM
Teaching computer science with APL: An introduction to search procedures
APL '79 Proceedings of the international conference on APL: part 1
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In this paper the Authors have undertaken to demostrate that fairly general principles of computing can be stated, and operational computer models constructed by students, with little or no attention to specifics of hardware, and that in this fashion general principles can be conveyed, and a frame can be built, in which concepts of Computer Science can he organized and structured. These general principles can be introduced by using APL functions that are both readible descriptions and executable models. With this top-down approach detail can be provided when the student is ready for it, as successive levels of the working definitions are discussed.