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(Submission #27)
My sense is that PL may be the common undergraduate course with the greatest variation in its content. As far as I can tell, we don’t know what to teach our students, and there is no consensus on how to organize the course. I discuss several high-level problems that affect computer science instruction in general and programming languages in particular. These include desensitization, indoctrination, object confusion, the qualitative effect of scale, and breadth versus depth. I give one example of something that worked well in my undergraduate PL class. I look forward to discussing these, and other issues, so that I can improve my own undergraduate PL course and also guide the development of the new UT curriculum in areas that touch on programming languages.
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connection with other computer science curriculum
new ideas for teaching programming language concepts
evaluation of current curriculum
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