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Dataless objects considered harmful
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Volume 48 ,  Issue 2  (February 2005) table of contents
Medical image modeling
COLUMN: Technical opinion table of contents
Pages: 99 - 101  
Year of Publication: 2005
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Chenglie Hu  Carroll College, Waukesha, WI
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Novice programmers should be taught not only the value of faithfully representing objects but, even more important, multiple programming paradigms as well.


REFERENCES

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Edsger W. Dijkstra, Letters to the editor: go to statement considered harmful, Communications of the ACM, v.11 n.3, p.147-148, March 1968  [doi>10.1145/362929.362947]
 
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Yasushi Kambayashi , Henry F. Ledgard, The Separation Principle: A Programming Paradigm, IEEE Software, v.21 n.2, p.78-87, March 2004  [doi>10.1109/MS.2004.1270767]
 
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Meyer, B. From structured programming to object-oriented design: The road to Eiffel. Structured Program. 10, 1 (1989), 19--39.
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Ralph Westfall, Technical opinion: Hello, world considered harmful, Communications of the ACM, v.44 n.10, p.129-130, Oct. 2001  [doi>10.1145/383845.383874]

CITED BY  5
Umer Farooq , Craig H. Ganoe , John M. Carroll , Isaac G. Councill , C. Lee Giles, Design and evaluation of awareness mechanisms in CiteSeer, Information Processing and Management: an International Journal, v.44 n.2, p.596-612, March, 2008
Fred Martin, Toy projects considered harmful, Communications of the ACM, v.49 n.7, July 2006
A. Ebrahimi , C. Schweikert, Empirical study of novice programming with plans and objects, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.38 n.4, December 2006
Chenglie Hu, It's Mathematical, After All--the Nature of Learning Computer Programming, Education and Information Technologies, v.11 n.1, p.83-92, January 2006
Michael E. Caspersen , Jens Bennedsen, Instructional design of a programming course: a learning theoretic approach, Proceedings of the third international workshop on Computing education research, September 15-16, 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.0 GENERAL

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.1 PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.0 General
      D.2.3 Coding Tools and Techniques
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.0 General

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
  K.7 THE COMPUTING PROFESSION
      K.7.1 Occupations


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The famous 1968 paper by Dijkstra [1] spawned a long series of papers that mimicked Dijkstra's title, periodically declaring some aspect of programming to be "harmful." An incomplete list of apparently harmful subjects includes: recursive make [2]  more...


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