Logo as a prelude to LISP: some surprising results

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Logo as a prelude to LISP: some surprising results

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin archive
Volume 21 , Issue 3 (September 1989) table of contents

Pages: 35 - 38

Year of Publication: 1989

ISSN:0097-8418

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K. Louden

Department of Mathematics, and Computer Science, San Jose State University

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Recently San Jose State University introduced a LOGO-based, rather than a Pascal-based, first course in computer science. This paper reports on an attempt to trace statistically the effect of that curricular change on student performance in a subsequent Lisp course. Student final grades, however, showed no improvement in performance as a result of their prior exposure to functional programming with LOGO.

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