A copy of this work was available on the public web and has been preserved in the Wayback Machine. The capture dates from 2018; you can also visit the original URL.
The file type is application/pdf.
A Brief History of Choosing First Programming Languages
[chapter]
2008
History of Computing and Education 3 (HCE3)
Preserved Fulltext
Choosing the best computer language for introducing students to programming is often an emotional issue, leading to protracted debates for many years. This paper aims to document how the development of programming languages has influenced the educational processes of choosing an introductory language since the early days of computing, by exploring some of the "programming languages that have been selected over the last couple of decades and the rational for those selections". [1]
doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09657-5_11
dblp:conf/ifip3/Goosen08
fatcat:zmjcfbzrh5cbtberkzapu4ujgi