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ENTCS
2002
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Set Types and Applications
We present pmlB, a programming language that includes primitive sets and associated operations. The language is equipped with a precise type discipline that statically captures dy...
Christian Skalka, Scott F. Smith
INFORMATICALT
2000
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Theoretical Foundations of an Environment-Based Multiparadigm Language
The paper presents a simple programming language and rewriting system called GENS. It is based on an extension of the -calculus called E-calculus. GENS is a multiparadigm language:...
Mario Blazevic, Zoran Budimac, Mirjana Ivanovic
CAD
2004
Springer
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Turtle geometry in computer graphics and computer-aided design
: LOGO is a programming language incorporating turtle graphics, originally devised for teaching computing to young children in elementary and middle schools. Here we advocate the u...
Ron Goldman, Scott Schaefer, Tao Ju
AC
2002
Springer
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Software Fault Prevention by Language Choice: Why C is Not My Favorite Language
How much does the choice of a programming language influence the prevalence of bugs in the resulting code? It seems obvious that at the level at which individuals write new progra...
Richard J. Fateman
JUCS
2007
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Using Visitor Patterns in Object-Oriented Action Semantics
Abstract: Object-Oriented Action Semantics is a semantic framework for the definition of programming languages. The framework incorporates some object-oriented concepts to the Act...
André Murbach Maidl, Cláudio Carvilh...
SIGPLAN
2008
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Rethinking pedagogy for teaching PL with more than PL concepts in mind
Depending on individual department goals, undergraduate computer science educators teach theoretical concepts and skills with varying priorities on preparing students for continui...
Lori L. Pollock
SIGPLAN
2008
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Some thoughts on teaching programming and programming languages
It is argued that the teaching of programming is central to the education of skilled computer professionals, that the teaching of programming languages is central to the teaching ...
John C. Reynolds
SIGPLAN
2008
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An aspect-oriented approach to the undergraduate programming language curriculum
Three key forces are shaping the modern Computer Science (CS) curriculum: (1) new topics/courses are squeezing out existing ones; (2) a focus on "big picture" and interd...
Mark A. Sheldon, Franklyn A. Turbak
IIE
2007
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Should LOGO Keep Going FORWARD 1?
LOGO has been evolving in incremental steps for 40 years. This has resulted in steady progress but some regions of the space of all programming languages for children cannot be re...
Ken Kahn
KI
2006
Springer
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Agent Logics as Program Logics: Grounding KARO
Abstract. Several options are available to relate agent logics to computational agent systems. Among others, one can try to find useful executable fragments of an agent logic or us...
Koen V. Hindriks, John-Jules Ch. Meyer