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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 38 , Issue 5 (May 1995) table of contents

Pages: 99 - 101

Year of Publication: 1995

ISSN:0001-0782

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L. F. Johnson

Information Metrics Institute, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

To advice or not to advise, that is the dilemma. To be or not to be, that is the question. To see or not to see, that is the difficulty.

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	1	Demming, W.E. Out of the Crisis. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1982.
	2	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]
	3	Eric S. Roberts, Using C in CS1: evaluating the Stanford experience, Proceedings of the twenty-fourth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, p.117-121, February 18-19, 1993, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

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	Michael Goldweber, A report on the use of HyperTalk in CS1 within a liberal arts setting, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.31 n.2, June 1999
	Susan S. Brilliant , Timothy R. Wiseman, The first programming paradigm and language dilemma, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.28 n.1, p.338-342, March 1996
	Jarrell C. Grout , Robert G. Strader , John B. Hanks, Essential C++, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.28 n.2, p.3-14, June 1996