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Some thoughts on teaching first year programming

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Marcel Dupras,

Fernand LeMay,

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 16, Issue 1

Pages 148 - 153

https://doi.org/10.1145/952980.808641

Published: 01 January 1984 Publication History

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Teaching programming to first year classes is most often considered a matter of minor importance. We think otherwise. This paper expresses our viewpoint on the matter and reports on an experiment supporting our viewpoint.

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McGee LPolychronopoulos GWilson C(1987)The influence of BASIC on performance in introductory computer science courses using PascalACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/36093.3610319:3(29-34)Online publication date: 1-Sep-1987
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36093.36103
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https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2006.384745

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 16, Issue 1

Proceedings of the 15th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

February 1984

235 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/952980

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SIGCSE '84: Proceedings of the fifteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
January 1984
272 pages
ISBN:0897911261
DOI:10.1145/800039
Chairman:
Richard H. Austing,
Editors:
Lillian N. Cassel,
Joyce Currie Little

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McGee LPolychronopoulos GWilson C(1987)The influence of BASIC on performance in introductory computer science courses using PascalACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/36093.3610319:3(29-34)Online publication date: 1-Sep-1987
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36093.36103
Chiang C(2006)Introducing Proofs of a Program's Termination in an Undergraduate Software Engineering Course2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics10.1109/ICSMC.2006.384745(3927-3931)Online publication date: Oct-2006
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2006.384745

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