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A progress report on teaching programming to business students without lectures

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Cecilia Daly,

David W. Embley,

George NagyAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 1

Pages 247 - 250

https://doi.org/10.1145/953030.809594

Published: 01 January 1979 Publication History

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A lectureless mode of instruction for programming courses is described. The observations collected in a pilot experiment teaching FORTRAN to about one hundred business students are recorded and analyzed. Advantages and disadvantages of the method, and implications for other languages and other clienteles are discussed.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 11, Issue 1

Proceedings of the 10th SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education

February 1979

251 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/953030

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SIGCSE '79: Proceedings of the tenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
January 1979
251 pages
ISBN:9781450374316
DOI:10.1145/800126
Chairmen:
Douglas Kerr,
John F. Dalphin

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