Teaching both PL/I and Fortran to beginners

Authors:
Glen E. Newton;J. Denbigh Starkey
Affiliations:
Sperry UNIVAC, 2276 Highcrest Drive, Roseville, Minnesota;Computer Science Department, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Venue:
SIGCSE '76 Proceedings of the sixth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1976

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Abstract

The overall approach to programming languages taken in the course is to use PL/I (with the PL/C compiler) during the first part of the semester to introduce programming concepts and techniques, then teach Fortran (with the WATFIV compiler) during the last part of the semester [2,3]. Except for a brief discussion of conventional flowcharts to help students read the examples in the texts, Nassi-Shneiderman structured flowcharts are used throughout the lectures and labs [4]. Algorithms are written in PL/I using DO-WHILE as the primary control structure, and GOTOs are not introduced except in Fortran.