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Using C in CS1
1993
Proceedings of the twenty-fourth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education - SIGCSE '93
In 1991, the Stanford Department of Computer Science decided to abandon Pascal in its introductory computer science courses and to adopt ANSI C as the language of instruction. We based this decision on several factors: the inadequacy of standard Pascal as a base for teaching modern programming concepts, the need to prepare our students for more advanced courses in which they will be expected to use C for programming projects, and increasing pressure from students and faculty throughout the
doi:10.1145/169070.169361
dblp:conf/sigcse/Roberts93
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