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Using Octave to introduce programming to technical science students

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Nuno C. Marques,

Francisco Azevedo,

Carmen Morgado,

Jorge F. CustódioAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '05: Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 198 - 202

https://doi.org/10.1145/1067445.1067500

Published: 27 June 2005 Publication History

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In this paper we describe a five semester experiment on the introduction of Octave to teach computer programming to technical science students. We discuss the main advantages and disadvantages of this approach relatively to more traditional programming languages. After a qualitative and quantitative analysis of student evaluation results we argue that this kind of programming languages are useful to teach programming to non computer science engineering students.

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Using Octave to introduce programming to technical science students
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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ITiCSE '05: Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

June 2005

440 pages

ISBN:1595930248

DOI:10.1145/1067445

Conference Chairs:
José Cunha
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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William Fleischman
Villanova University
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Program Chairs:
Viera K. Proulx
Northeastern University
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João Lourenço
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 37, Issue 3
September 2005
418 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/1151954
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