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A tutor on scope for the programming languages course

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Eric Fernandes,

Amruth N. KumarAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '04: Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 90 - 93

https://doi.org/10.1145/971300.971332

Published: 01 March 2004 Publication History

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In order to facilitate problem-based learning in our Programming Languages course, we developed a tutor on static and dynamic scope. Static scope includes the scope of variables, the referencing environment of procedures and the scope of procedure names in a language that permits nesting of procedure definitions (e.g., Pascal, Ada). Dynamic scope includes the scope of variables, and the referencing environment of procedures. In this paper, we will describe the design of our tutor, and present the results of evaluating it for two semesters in our Programming Languages course.

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A tutor on scope for the programming languages course
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Computer-assisted instruction
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Procedures, functions and subroutines

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