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ICFP
2010
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Experience report: growing programming languages for beginning students
A student learning how to program learns best when the programming language and programming environment cater to her specific needs. These needs are different from the requirement...
Marcus Crestani, Michael Sperber
ICFP
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A functional I/O system or, fun for freshman kids
Functional programming languages ought to play a central role in mathematics education for middle schools (age range: 10?14). After all, functional programming is a form of algebr...
Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew ...
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
101views Education» more  SIGCSE 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
PL-detective: a system for teaching programming language concepts
The educational literature recognizes that people go through a number of stages in their intellectual development. During the first stage, called received knowledge or dualism, p...
Amer Diwan, William M. Waite, Michele H. Jackson

Book
321views
16 years 7 months ago
Algorithms
"This book evolved over the past ten years from a set of lecture notes developed while teaching the undergraduate Algorithms course at Berkeley and U.C. San Diego. Our way of ...
S. Dasgupta, C.H. Papadimitriou, and U.V. Vazirani
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
135views Education» more  SIGCSE 2002»
14 years 9 months ago
Introducing computer science through animation and virtual worlds
We describe a course for non-majors that teaches computer science concepts and programming by creating simple animations and building 2D and 3D virtual worlds. Students work with ...
Susan H. Rodger