Why teach programming languages in this day and age and how to go about it

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Why teach programming languages in this day and age and how to go about it

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices archive
Volume 43 , Issue 11 (November 2008) table of contents

COLUMN: White papers table of contents

Pages 59-61

Year of Publication: 2008

ISSN:0362-1340

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Matthias Felleisen

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The question is not whether a computing curriculum should include a rigorous course on programming languages, but which topics make up the minimum that we wish every student to understand, and how we should teach these topics.

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	1	Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, and Shriram Krishnamurthi. How to Design Programs. MIT Press, 2001.
	2	Daniel P. Friedman , Mitchell Wand, Essentials of Programming Languages, 3rd Edition, The MIT Press, 2008
	3	Robert Harper. Practical Foundations of Programming Languages. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/plbook/book.pdf, 2008. last viewed, 22 July 2008.
	4	Shriram Krisnhamurthi. Programming Languages: Applications and Interpretation. Lulu Press., 2007.