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BoxScript: a component-oriented language for teaching

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ACM Southeast Regional Conference archive
Proceedings of the 43rd annual Southeast regional conference - Volume 1 table of contents

Kennesaw, Georgia

SESSION: Education table of contents

Pages: 349 - 354

Year of Publication: 2005

ISBN:1-59593-059-0

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Yi Liu	University of Mississippi, University, MS
H. Conrad Cunningham	University of Mississippi, University, MS

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

As component-oriented approaches become increasingly pervasive in the development of complex software systems, it becomes increasingly important to introduce computing science students to appropriate programming concepts, languages and techniques. This paper describes the design of the component-oriented language BoxScript, which seeks to address the needs of teachers and students for a clean, simple language. This paper first enumerates the principles applied in the language design and then presents the key concepts and features of BoxScript. The paper illustrates the language features by using an example and by comparing it with several other component-oriented programming languages.

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	Yi Liu , H. Conrad Cunningham, Java in the box: implementing the BoxScript component language, Proceedings of the 45th annual southeast regional conference, March 23-24, 2007, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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