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Marketing the programming languages course

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Programming languages as a required course is disappearing from undergraduate computer science programs. This is not surprising given that the course often proves to be challenging for faculty to teach and unpopular among students. The author argues that the best way to convince departments to retain this material is to emphasize the benefit to undergraduates of stretching their understanding of programming early in their careers.

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Daniel D. McCracken, Programming languages in the computer science curriculum, Proceedings of the twenty-third SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, p.1--4, March 05-06, 1992, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

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cover image ACM SIGPLAN Notices
ACM SIGPLAN Notices  Volume 43, Issue 11
November 2008
137 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/1480828
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New York, NY, United States

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Published: 30 November 2008
Published in SIGPLAN Volume 43, Issue 11

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